Poop soup: Chinese Vessels dumps sewage onto coral reefs, turns South China Sea into toilet

Communist countries are renowned for their pollution, but China is taking it to a new level.

Here's their latest, which comes of their expansion into the South China Sea, according to WION of India:

Swarms of Chinese vessels have dumped human waste and wastewater for years in a disputed area of the South China Sea, causing algae blooms that have damaged coral reefs and threatened fish in an unfolding catastrophe, a US-based expert said Monday.
Satellite images over the last five years show how human waste, sewage and wastewater have accumulated and caused algae in a cluster of reefs in the Spratlys region where hundreds of Chinese fishing ships have anchored in batches, said Liz Derr, who heads Simularity Inc, a software company creating artificial intelligence technologies for satellite imagery analysis.

Which is disgusting. How'd you like to be a little sea creature and get that rained down? What does a coral reef look like after the ChiComs have dropped their dumps onto them? What's more, it's not just the open sea seeing this, it's pollution affecting nations in the region. The Philippines, which is known for its pristine beaches, has reportedly ordered its military to investigate.

The important point here is that China doesn't belong there. According to Reuters:

China maintains a constant presence of coastguard and fishing boats in the South China Sea to assert its claim of sovereignty, including hundreds in the Spratly islands, where the Philippines, Brunei, Taiwan, Vietnam and Malaysia also have claims.
Simularity, an AI-based satellite image analysis firm, on Monday released public satellite images over a five-year period that it said showed damage caused by untreated human waste from Chinese vessels.

It hangs out in this region to intimidate its neighbors and assert dominance. It certainly doesn't belong there, and all its territorial claims are fake.

The CCP aim is not just to beat up Vietnam, Philippines and Taiwan, but to chase out the Great White Fleet of the U.S. Navy, which at least until China started muscling in, kept the sea lanes open and enabled the smaller Asian nations of Southeast Asia to develop and grow prosperous. China's presence already is a baleful one in the region of the South China Sea. It's built illegal atolls.

It's had its fishing ships spy on other nations. It's attacked boats of Vietnam and Philippines in the past, and certainly caused trouble for the U.S. Navy.

Now we learn it's brought its communist environmental practices to what had otherwise been a pristine region, turning it into their personal toilet.

Chinese ships have dumped so much poop in the South China Sea, you can see it from space

WWF: South China Sea.
This ecoregion encompasses several hundred islands, atolls, rocks, cays, banks, and reefs in three archipelagos of the South China Sea. Coral reefs are the predominant structure of these islands; the Spratly group contains over 600 coral reefs in total. Little vegetation grows on these islands, which are subject to intense monsoons. They do, however, provide important habitat for many seabirds, as well as green and hawksbill sea turtles. Unfortunately, the South China Sea Islands are still largely a mystery. Scientists have focused their research on the marine environment, while the ecology of the terrestrial environment remains relatively unknown. (end WWF)
The Paracel Islands comprise a major island and many small coral islands. Paracel was occupied by the French Foreign Legion and then by regional forces soldiers of South Viet Nam before the island was invaded and occupied by China during the war in Viet Nam. Historically, the islands and islets appertain to Viet Nam. The waters around Paracel are dangerous given the great number of coral reefs. The islets were the breeding ground of hundreds of turtles, and one can assume that they have disappeared given the voracious appetite of the Chinese.

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