Should the U.S. build islands like China?
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China has a major overpopulation problem, which I imagine is the reason they are doing this. Actually, the Chinese manmade islands are not for residential or tourist purposes (like in Dubai). The Islands China is building in the South China Sea are strategic military bases. This has to do with disputes over who owns the territory, and China is using the islands both to assert the claim of ownership, and to establish a military presence that can enforce the assertion. Other claimants of portions of the South China Sea include Viet Nam, Philippines, and Japan. Considering that two of these are close allies of the US, it makes sense that China wants a strong military-backed claim. Side: yes
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LOL winston. Sorry, I had a chuckle at that one. No, China is not building islands to help with their population control. In fact, China's population will be shrinking very soon because they are already have low fertility rates not enough to maintain it's population so in a couple decades, it will top off and then after that will decline dramatically every decade after. There are other countries that you need to be more concerned about with overpopulation. By 2100, Nigeria will have 1 billion people, Pakistan will have 1 billion and Indonesia will have 1 billion, and those countries are small compared to the land size of China. Side: yes
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The US has to stop building military bases around the world. They already have over 800 around the world with 250,000 troops deployed/stationed. China has built 1 island in the South China sea, and America is all up in arms about it? Talk about taking the plank out of your own eye before judging the speck in someone else's. Side: no
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