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Mischief Reef: PLA-N naval station
Topic Started: Jul 27 2013, 10:09 AM (3,761 Views)
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A repost: makes one wonder about which class of frigate that was sighted. Most of the larger warships the PLA-N operates such as destroyers and frigates (like the Jianghu V class frigate most likely to be in the South China Sea) have SSMs...

The BRP Gregorio Del Pilar has currently no defence against SSMs she is sent there, since her Phalanx mount was removed.

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MANILA, Philippines - The Chinese have transformed the Panganiban (Mischief) Reef in Palawan into a forward naval station with at least one ship docked in the area, a senior security official disclosed yesterday.

The official, who asked not to be identified, pointed out that since China’s illegal occupation of Panganiban Reef in 1994, Beijing had slowly transformed the area into its forward naval facility in the West Philippine Sea.

“At one given time there’s a Chinese frigate out there,” he said of the area located around 130 nautical miles from Hulugan Bay in Palawan and 97 nautical miles from Pag-Asa, an island municipality in the disputed Spratlys archipelago.

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Edited by MSantor, Jul 27 2013, 10:14 AM.
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10 years later.

PLAN naval station on Scarborough/Panatag . No I'm not even joking.
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A Chinese "pipe dream" or soon to become a reality?

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China to Build 200,000-ton Fish Farming Ship at Mischief Reef
Posted: September 24, 2014
Author: chankaiyee2


Chinese scientists are planning to intensify China's exploitation of fish resources in the South China Sea.

Lei Jilin, a research fellow at Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute repeatedly stressed in an interview with China Science Daily, "We shall not merely guard our territories while neglecting exploiting our deep-sea resources."

According to Chinese scientists, Mischief Reef, more than 1,000 km from Hainan Province is one of China’s important fishery bases. The reef is in China's remote tropical deep-sea area with superior natural conditions for development of fishery and fish farming.

At present, scientists and technicians are helping more and more fishermen to settle down there to develop deep-sea cage-culture fish farming. However, as the reef lies far from Chinese mainland, there are difficulties to ensure supplies for daily production and life.

To deal with the problems, Lei says that intensive preparations have been made for China's first fish farming industrial ship. Initial design of the ship has been completed. According to the plan, an old oil tanker will be purchased to be transformed into a large fish farming industrial complex for fish farming, processing and storage and to provide services on the sea. When it is built, it can station at the reef to administer and guard the sea area and provide berth, fish processing and shipping, supplies, relief and assistance for fishing boats in addition to its own operation as a fish farming complex. It will thus become a mobile production base on the sea.

The fish farming industrial ship will be a pilot project. If it proves successful, more ships will be built to station on other isles and reefs.

Lei told the reporter that in the past, China stationed troops and people at border areas to do the farming there while guarding the border. We now have to extend the tradition to stationing troops and people to conduct fishery and fish farming at marine border area while guarding the border.




Source: huanqiu.com "China making preparations for the construction of a 200,000-ton fish farming ship to be deployed at Mischief Reef" (summary by Chan Kai Yee based on the report in Chinese)




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'Chinese fishing expeditions in Spratlys not violating laws'
Christina Mendez, The Philippine Star
09/28/2014


HAIKOU, Hainan - Chinese academic experts on the South China Sea yesterday justified the conduct of massive fishing by Chinese fishermen in the disputed high seas.

According to Wu Shicun, president and senior research fellow of the National Institute for South China Sea Studies (NISCSS), the Chinese fishermen supposedly on fishing expeditions in the West Philippine Sea area cannot be held for any illegal actions. He even pointed out that other fishermen from claimant countries have been monitored to have conducted fishing in the disputed area.


"Don't think that China is the only country fishing in the area... the Philippines and Vietnam fishermen were there fishing in the ocean. There is no law that bars fishing in the disputed waters as far as the Chinese government is concerned. If China thinks those fishermen violated domestic laws, then China should punish them under those laws, such as environment protection law."

- Wu Shicun, National Institute for South China Sea Studies (NISCSS)

Wu responded to a question by a member of the Philippine media delegation - invited by the Chinese embassy in Manila for its first Southwestern economical and cultural familiarization tour - on how the two countries can possibly set mechanisms to stop illegal fishing in the disputed area.

The Philippines charged nine Chinese fishermen last May for poaching more than 500 endangered sea turtles at a shoal, called Banyue Reef in China.


Fish farm at Mischief Reef

There are also reports that China is putting up a fish farm complex at Panganiban Reef (Mischief Reef) that Beijing occupied years back and developed into a highly fortified forward naval facility in the disputed region.


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at least Wu admitted those waters are "disputed" and not the tired and rancid "indisputable" claim
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Phl urges China to halt reclamation work on reef
By Pia Lee-Brago (The Philippine Star)
February 7, 2015


"We strongly urge China to desist from its reclamation activities at Panganiban. Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Philippines has exclusive right to authorize construction of artificial islands, installations or other structures in the vicinity of Panganiban Reef."

- Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)


MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines strongly urged China to stop reclamation work on a disputed submerged reef within its exclusive economic zone in the West Philippine Sea, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday.

A Navy commander said Thursday that China had started dredging around the disputed Panganiban (Mischief) Reef, signaling Beijing may be preparing to expand its facilities in the area.



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China’s mischief: Expansion, reclamation

Redempto D. And a - Inquirer Southern Luzon
Saturday, February 7th, 2015



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Rear Admiral Alexander Lopez, chief of the Western Command (Wescom) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, did not say when China started the dredging work or give any details on the extent of reclamation at Panganiban Reef, saying only the work had been “substantial.”

He said the Navy has taken aerial photographs of the reclamation activities at Panganiban Reef but that his command was not authorized to release those photos.

But Lopez said the physical change in Panganiban Reef since the dredging “has been substantial.” He said Panganiban Reef has been functioning as a base for Chinese frigates that have been patrolling the area.



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Mischief Reef - This is your "Chinese Fishermen's shelter" now.




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China starts work on Mischief Reef land reclamation

James Hardy, London and Sean O'Connor, Indianapolis, IN - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
11 March 2015


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Airbus Defence and Space imagery dated 19 July 2014 and 30 January 2015 shows the start of dredging by China at Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands. (CNES 2014/Distribution Airbus DS/IHS)



China has begun to create land on Mischief Reef in Beijing's latest move to firm up its South China Sea claims. IHS Maritime identified the dredger as Tian Kai , a trailing suction hopper dredger operated by CCCC Tianjin Dredging Co Ltd that was in the area from 14 January to 16 February.

The Airbus imagery shows Tian Kai dredging a channel close to one of China's existing platforms in the reef, and depositing the spoil on the reef to create a landmass.

China's existing presence on Mischief Reef consisted of two small concrete platforms that included buildings and shelters for fishermen.

Other data from IHS Maritime suggests that China is deploying its latest China Coast Guard (CCG) offshore patrol vessels to monitor potential outside interest in the dredging activities. AISLive data showed that Haijing 3307, a 3000-tonne OPV fitted with water cannon and capable of embarking a helicopter, patrolled an area to the southeast of Mischief Reef from 5 to 24 January and again from 12 to 27 February.

Chinese media have also released satellite images suggesting China is beginning to create a landmass at Subi Reef, which is about 25 km southwest of the Philippine-occupied Thitu Island: Manila's only Spratly island to have an airstrip. China's presence on Subi Reef previously consisted of a concrete platform that included buildings, a helipad, and geodesic dome probably fitted with communications equipment.



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China's New Military Installations in the Disputed Spratly Islands: Satellite Image Update

Recent high-resolution images show new areas of reclamation on Mischief and Subi Reefs, and intensive construction on Fiery Cross as well as several other reefs.

By Victor Robert Lee
16 March 2015



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