Girls, Gardening, Puppies, And Pigs: Life On China's Disputed Man-Made Islands

On April 17, we introduced readers to Fiery Cross Reef, one of China’s man-made islands in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. Since then, Beijing’s land reclamation efforts have sparked an international firestorm, complete with war games, threats, a confrontation between a US spy plane carrying a CNN crew and the PLA Navy, World War 3 chatter, and, of course, references to Nazi Germany.

Amid the rhetoric, China has maintained it has every right to protect its “legitimate” territorial claims by constructing thousands of acres of sovereign land and, if necessary, enforcing a no-fly zone above the new islands.

But while Beijing admits its Spratly sand castles will indeed be used for military purposes, it also says the primary goal of the entire dredging effort is to assist China in carrying out the country's “various civilian demands and international obligations and responsibilities in the area such as maritime search and rescue, disaster prevention and mitigation, marine scientific research, meteorological observation, ecological environment conservation, navigation safety as well as fishery production service.”

Now, Beijing has embarked on what looks like a propaganda campaign to show that despite attempts by the US and its regional allies to cast aspersions, island life in the Spratlys is all about girls, gardening, puppies, and pigs. 

Behold: life on Fiery Cross Reef:

Comments

[onmail]

And in USA you are down with piles of debt

and cabal bankster shylocks, breathing down on your neck.

Your money, or your pound of flesh

[GoldSilverBitcoinBug]

Do they accept foreigner ?

I'm ready and in full physical force to do my duty !

My armor piercing missile is ready !

[Barley Burnside]

Dock that chink a days pay for nappin' on tha job

[The Delicate Genius]

I love Asian women.

I wonder if they'd pay me to live on that island.

All I need is a fishing rod, 3 pigs, and a comely maiden of virtue true.

If the Chinese want to fuck around with Vietnam, Phillipines, Malaysia, Burma and Indonesian shipping for real, and I'm not sure they do, I say we let 'em.

Not sure why building an island is more provocative than naval exercises 50 miles out off the shores of Iran, russia, North korea, and who'd I forget?

[xizang777]

What nerve!   It's a good thing that the US doesn't lay claim to any islands way out beyond its  12-, 50- or 100-mile territorial limits.   Right?  Right?

[onmail]

BarackHomObamma : "OhMyAss, dey are now raisin gurls, puppiez , pigus an' trees on the maan-maid eyelaands, dat iz a crime againzt yummaan ritus, bom' dem and seize deir gold (like wee deed in yukraine)"