Japan spent 40 billion to secretly expand the artificial island, and the territory will double after completion

Japan is a mountainous island country, with an area of only 378,000 square kilometers, not only affected by earthquakes and tsunamis, but also sinking at a rate of 10 centimeters per year, so how to expand the territory has become Japan's urgent priority, for this Japan has spent 40 billion without the knowledge of the countries, secretly staged a trick of territorial expansion, trying to double the territory area, so is this plan successful?

Japan's expansion dreams of building a special economic zone

The artificial island that Japan is trying to build secretly is Okinori Reef, 1,730 kilometers from Tokyo, Japan, a group of coral atolls located in the western Pacific Ocean.

At low tide, the island and reef will have 5 reefs exposed to the water, the length of the east and west can reach 4.5 kilometers, the length of the north and south is about 1.7 kilometers, the whole is like an oval sitting on the sea, but once the tide comes, there are only two reefs that can be exposed to the water, one is the west island with an area of 6.4 square meters, the exposed part is 16 cm high, and the other is only 1.6 square meters of the East Island, the exposed part is only 6 cm, what is the concept?

Assuming that a person stands on the island and reef, if he moves a little, he is in danger of falling into the sea, which is such a sesame-sized place, but Japan vainly wants to build it into a special economic zone of 470,000 square kilometers, and even in the 80s of the last century, Japan began to secretly start construction, once the construction is completed, Japan's territory will double.

Of course, dreams and delusions are the same word, but they are false.

The 40 billion floating artificial islands were eaten overnight

Although the area of Okinoshi Reef is only less than 10 square meters, if once the expansion is successful, the reef becomes an island, then the sea rights around Okinoshi Reef for 200 nautical miles will belong to Japan.

So Japan came up with the idea of reclaiming land from the sea, and in 1987, without the United Nations, began to secretly build the island, and the plan was initially going well, but it didn't take long for an accident to appear. They found that the newly built part of the island would soon be washed away by the sea, so that there was no way to continue, but this did not stop Japan's determination to build the island.

So in 1989, Japan spent 25.8 billion to fill in more than 9,900 iron wave blocks used to defend against waves, and protected some of the built parts with cement embankments, thinking that they would be safe.

Unexpectedly, the iron wave block and protective net were seriously corroded by the seawater, and 25.8 billion almost disappeared.

So in 1999, Japan hurriedly spent another 800 million to strengthen titanium alloys on the reef to resist the erosion of seawater, and such a large battle also attracted the attention of the United Nations, in order to prevent Japan from continuing to act arbitrarily.

The United Nations said that only naturally formed islands can apply for special economic zones, so far 40 billion investment and years of efforts have basically come to naught, I thought Japan would give up, but Japan came up with a miracle trick, sprinkling coral eggs around Okinotori Reef, simulating nature by artificial intervention, so as to expand the area of the reef, just when Japan was preparing to meet the dawn of victory, the accident happened again.

The island made of coral was eaten and worn by the coral nemesis crown of thorns starfish, which is a marine life that feeds on coral, and the ability to reproduce is extremely fast, where there is coral, there is a crown of thorns starfish, and Japan can not destroy the marine ecology, can only watch more than 40 billion artificial islands, little by little by the crown of thorns starfish, the plan to build a super special economic zone is also broken.

What secrets are hidden in Japan's creation of artificial islands?

In addition to expanding its territory, Japan has gone to great lengths to build an artificial island, and the reef is rich in oil, natural gas, manganese, copper, nickel and other rare mineral resources on the seabed around Okinotori Reef.

Once the expansion of Okinotori Reef is successful, then this huge wealth will all belong to Japan, and the fishery resources around Okinotori Reef are very rich, if the special economic zone is successfully built, then Japan can obtain, 400,000 square kilometers of fishery waters, which is a lot of wealth for Japan.

In addition, Okinori Reef is very close to the Philippines, Guam and other areas, and is the main shipping route in and out of the East China Sea to the Pacific Ocean, which is of great strategic value.

Therefore, for Japan, Okinotori Reef is a treasure reef, how can Japan easily give up, but the mechanism is exhausted, but it is defeated in the hands of the small crown of thorns starfish, even if Japan tries its best to save it, in the end, only around Okinotori Reef, a few useless continental shelves of 31 square kilometers remain, in the end it is really a chicken that cannot erode rice, which is very happy.