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First they take the South China Sea, then the galaxy…

China’s current terraforming activities and proposed designs for cities and vehicles provide an excellent way to expand their territory and power not just within its nearby waters, but also beyond Earth. Creating new land and living in ever more hostile environments, such as beneath the ocean and in orbit, allows it to continue to develop its industrial base and fully leapfrog the first world nations to become an off-world one.

Chinese reclamation work on Johnson South Reef (Image: Philippine armed forces)

Chinese reclamation work on Johnson South Reef [BBC]

We start our look in the present. At this piece by the BBC “China’s Island Factory“, which examines how China’s economic rise and development as a naval power is driving its need to acquire a legitimate hold in territory it had previously laid claim to, but not enforced. By deploying its freshly minted navy to contest existing claims by neighbours such as Vietnam and the Philippines. And by manufacturing islands:

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why terraform the south china sea when you can turn it into a galactic launching pad, I argue