Cabbage Strategy

Cabbage strategy is designed to occupy a larger Maritime zone for a particular nation, in order to gain exclusive national rights over certain bodies of water. The strategy involves building large amounts of man-made islands in the middle of a large body of water, building them up until they have enough land mass to claim a local sea under the UN's "Law of the Sea".

A famous user of this is China, who is using this tactic in an attempt to occupy a large portion of the South China Sea, which they declared as theirs based on historical claims