They can hardly industrialize on a sustainable scale right? Tourism is their only possible lifeblood, along with extractive stuff like mining and fishing and being a tax haven. What viable path is there for them under a communist system?
They can hardly industrialize on a sustainable scale right? Tourism is their only possible lifeblood, along with extractive stuff like mining and fishing and being a tax haven. What viable path is there for them under a communist system?
But footfall would decrease drastically no? Like I'm guessing you mean sailing which could take months. Only the closest countries and their citizens with the most time on their hands would take the plunge
With modern ship building and materials science and weather prediction via satellites sailing ships could go shockingly fast. The fasest commercial sailing vessel ever made, the famous Cutty Sark, last of the tea clippers, could manage almost 700km a day. And that was in the 1860s. Modern ships using wind turbine driven screws so they could sail directly against the wind, complimented with solar or nuclear power, and armed with real time global wather surveillance would likely be capable of pushing that envelope much further.
I guess during the transition period, there wouldn't be much interest in islands from a purely economic perspective. Ideally we would probably just fuck off and leave them alone like with North Sentinel Island, but Hawaii is already crushed by capitalism and we shouldn't abandon them.