Preface
Japan's ambition to "occupy" marine resources is not dead, but it is defeated by the "conspiracy" on the mainland!
Japan is a neighbor of the mainland with a strip of water, but this neighbor is inevitably too ambitious, and it attaches great importance not only to land resources, but also to maritime resources.
They have gone so far as to use a few small reefs in the Pacific Ocean to "encircle the sea" and draw a super-large "exclusive economic zone" in the Pacific Ocean, hoping to completely "occupy" the resources of this sea area.
And privately classified more than 7,000 Pacific islands under his command, and unashamedly announced his greedy behavior to the world!
Japan originally wanted to make profits for itself through such a method, but in the end, it achieved us, and achieved greater benefits for ourselves with just one "yang conspiracy"!
The Three Kingdoms "refer to the deer as the horse", and Japan "refers to the reef as the island"
Reefs are usually used to describe small land masses that are exposed to the sea, so we instinctively confuse the two words, which is a big mistake!
The term "island" has to be understood separately, and the island refers to those relatively large islands, which are relatively rich in both area and the natural resources attached to the islands, and some of the larger islands even have their own small ecosystems.
Many islands have enough resources to support human beings to survive alone, and even some small islands are sovereign countries, such as the Maldives.
However, the word "reef" in islands and reefs is different, and reefs generally refer to reefs in the ocean, and most of them cannot actually be viewed according to land, because some are buried under the surface of the water all year round.
This kind of reef stone has no conditions to support human survival, and some reefs that can barely be exposed to the surface for a long time can only be built with some small shacks at most.
Obviously, the reef is much smaller than a real island and has very limited functionality, but some of the reefs are located in critical locations, and many of them are strategically located.
As a result, reefs tend to be the focus of disputes, because reefs are often accompanied by interests in the surrounding waters, and although they are small, they cannot be ignored.
Because of the foundation of the reef, it is possible to reclaim the sea and build the island, so that it is completely possible to install its own forces on the island and reef.
Therefore, Japan has been frantically "island-building" since the second half of the last century, and the "Okinotori Reef" is the focus, because its location is very critical.
Okinotori Reef is a small reef and not an island, but Japan has artificially expanded it into a platform that can accommodate people.
In fact, in terms of actual scale, Okinotori Reef is actually just a man-made reef, not the scale of an island, but Japan is desperately trying to use it to do something in the Pacific Ocean!
Japan's "Sea Power Ambitions"
Japan is a medium-sized country in terms of territory, not as small as we imagined, but their native living conditions are really not complimentary, and there are hundreds of millions of people living there!
The Japanese have always been well aware of their small territory and very scarce resources, so they have an ambition for foreign expansion, and from ancient times until the end of World War II, Japan often launched foreign wars with the intention of expanding its territory.
We already knew this, because Japan's main expansion target had been the mainland, but fortunately we defeated Japan and their expansion plans failed.
In the modern world, the situation tends to be peaceful, and Japan no longer has the opportunity to expand its land power, but their expansionist ambitions have not collapsed.
There is no expansion channel on land, so Japan has shifted its goal to the sea, and it wants to achieve the goal of maritime expansion.
The certificate of ownership or priority of use of the sea area is the island and reef, so if Japan wants to expand its maritime territory, it can only occupy more islands.
Japan is a veteran of occupying more islands, and tends to open its mouth wide to dare to include thousands of islands in its own territory.
According to some data, Japan will only have 6,852 islands in 1987, and at this time Japan was relatively restrained and did not dare to be too presumptuous.
However, after decades of development, Japan has claimed to have more than 14,000 islands, more than twice the number of islands before it.
In addition, the relevant people of the Japanese authorities also arrogantly publicized this incident to the outside world, completely ignoring the emotions of the international community, and looking at the results in their hands with great force.
There must be a suitable reason for Japan to conjure up such a huge number of islands out of thin air, right?
Otherwise, it will be difficult for Japan to convince the public, and the reasons given by the Japanese side are shocking.
That is, Japan directly claimed that the more than 7,000 additional islands were newly discovered by itself, and that it was the credit of modern surveying technology, not that they were the ones who did it.
In the last century, there were only a few thousand islands in Japan, which led to limited surveying technology, but now that the times have changed, the measurement technology has long been different.
The most disgraceful thing is that artificial reefs and other types of reefs are not counted, and the Japanese mean that these islands are naturally formed, not artificially built.
In this way, it is a clear idea of the previous crazy reclamation of islands, which means that these are naturally formed islands, and Japan has not artificially upgraded various reefs to islands!
If this is true, it is estimated that the water content is extremely high, and if this explanation is true, then Japan's frenzied island-building campaign over the past many years has also been overwritten.
If Japan uses these so-called waters to demarcate its own "exclusive economic zone", it is likely to infringe on the interests of other countries.
Just look at the size of the ocean demarcated by Japan to show how ambitious it is, almost including the middle area of the so-called first and second "island chains".
Japan's "wolf ambition" to expand its maritime interests has been clearly exposed, and it has not been concealed in the slightest, and it has been completely exposed on the international arena without any regard for the maritime interests of neighboring countries.
And this key "Okinotori Reef" is at the heart of this area!
Japan seems to have taken advantage, but in fact it has made a "good start"
Naturally, Japan's act was unreasonable, and the mainland had already filed a complaint for this matter at that time, but due to some factors outside other countries that disturbed the situation, it was finally stopped at this time.
The fact that Japan was able to continue to carry out his plan seemed to have taken a lot of advantage from this incident, but in fact it was to find a reason for us to carry out the "yang conspiracy."
We were also very good at reclamation, and we were able to do it on a much larger scale, so we started to expand a series of islands and reefs.
After unremitting efforts, the mainland's current reclamation of islands has almost been successful, and small reefs have become huge islands.
Compared with Japan's petty family spirit, the mainland has actually expanded the reef into an island, and even built various facilities on it.
The United Nations cannot say anything wrong with this kind of behavior, because Japan already has a good example, and if the international community intervenes in such matters, it will have to settle accounts with Japan first.
In fact, in the final analysis, this is a "conspiracy", and they don't have the strength to dare to intervene in this matter, because they can't find a reason!
epilogue
The mainland can also take this opportunity to build up the many islands in the South China Sea, so that these islands have sufficient military strength and can also give the soldiers stationed on the islands the ability to provide self-sufficiency.
And the military has become more solid, and we are doing all this in the name of justification!
References:
Global Network: "Japan suddenly claims more than 7,000 small islands! Okinotori Reef was indeed counted" March 4, 2023
International Online: "After reading the current situation of Nansha, you will know how strong China's island and reef construction capacity is", November 28, 2016
Hunan Daily2023-08-30"Fumio Kishida" takes command of the "new strategy, and it involves China"
China Youth Network2022-08-30"Due to the dispute over the "exclusive economic zone", South Korea asked the Japanese coast guard ship to stop the investigation and sail away, which was protested by the Japanese side"