China has started the trend in the South China Sea.  The made an island where there was none before.  Claimed it as China&#x27;s sovereign land, built military bases on it and claimed the 200 mile exclusion zone and made it into a no-fly zone.<p>Thus this is the first of many.<p>Wherever a country can create an island it will do so and claim it as sovereign land.<p>The next 20 years will be an &quot;island rush&quot; as countries stake out the worlds oceans as their own, build man made islands and militarize them.
The future: all the unclaimed oceans will be claimed by countries