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China tightening grip on Spratlys; merge threads, updates
Topic Started: Jun 25 2012, 06:46 PM (30,289 Views)
Hong Nam
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China says PH started construction war
By Kim Arveen Patria
Yahoo Southeast Asia Newsroom - 6 hours ago



China lambasted the Philippines for double standard Monday, saying it is “unjustifiable” for Manila to call for a moratorium on a construction war which it started in the first place.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said the Philippines “illegally seized” islands in the West Philippine Sea and even planned a “world class airport” on Pag-asa Island.

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*** Chinese bull crap goes on an on.... I'm sure by now the strongest mouthwash and toothpaste wouldn't be able to mask the smell anymore.





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China goes all out with major island building project in Spratlys

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20 June 2014

GPS tracking of a dredger using AISLive ship tracking data has confirmed Philippine claims that China has been reclaiming land at five locations since at least September 2013.

The dredging is part of major land reclamation projects undertaken by China on a number of the reefs and shoals it controls in the Spratlys. While such construction is in clear breach of a code of conduct signed by all claimants in the South China Sea territorial dispute, China has rejected any criticism of its activities by saying that the reefs are "indisputably" Chinese territory and so can be modified as Beijing sees fit.

The vessel, Tian Jing Hao , is a 127 m-long seagoing cutter suction dredger designed by German engineering company Vosta LMG. At 6,017 gross tonnes, it is credited as being the largest of its type in Asia. It has been operating on Cuarteron Reef (also known as Calderon Reef, Da Chau Vien, or Huayang Jiao); the Gaven Reefs (Nanxun Jiao and Xinan Jiao, Dá Ga Ven, and Dá Lc, Burgos); the Union Reefs (in particular at Johnson South Reef and Johnson North Reef); and at Fiery Cross Reef.

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It is important to note that China is not alone in conducting land reclamation of the South China Sea islands it controls. Since capturing Southwest Cay from the Philippines in 1975, Vietnam has substantially altered the island, adding a harbour and other land features in the past 10 years. Taiwan, which controls Itu Aba (Taiping) island, has built an airstrip and is currently upgrading its naval facilities. The Philippines has also announced plans to upgrade an airport and pier on Thitu (Pagasa) island, although resources remain a major issue for Manila.

The main difference between these activities and China's is that they modified existing land masses, while Beijing is constructing islands out of reefs that for the most part were under water at high tide.

The strategic effect of China's dredging and land reclamation makes it the most significant change to the South China Sea dispute since the 1988 Battle of Johnson South Reef. If completed as envisioned in the CGI designs, China will have its first airstrip in the Spratly islands - and a base from which to impose its interpretation of the surrounding features' sovereignty.

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China state news agency Xinhua reported that the new map printed by the Hunan Map Publishing House was recognized by State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information.

The map is the first large format full vertical version which shows the mainland and its extensive claims over the South China Sea using its "nine-dash line." Beijing claims that the dashed delimitation is based on historical records, but the Philippines said it is a violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

It depicts Philippine-claimed Spratly (Kalayaan) Islands and the Vietnam-claimed Paracel Islands as part of China.


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Lei Yixun, editor-in-chief of Hunan map publishing house shows a vertical atlas of China which is newly-issued by the publishing house in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, on June 23, 2014.Xinhua
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Photo showing the newly issued vertical atlas of China by Hunan Map Publishing House. It clearly shows China's sweeping claims over the South China Sea. Xinhua/Bai Yu

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"The islands of the South China Sea on the traditional map of China are shown in a cut-away box, and readers cannot fully, directly know the full map of China," the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily said on its website.

Old maps make the South China Sea's islands appear more like an appendage rather than an integral part of the country, which the new map makes "obvious with a single glance", the report added.

"This vertical map of China has important meaning for promoting citizens' better understanding of ... maintaining (our) maritime rights and territorial integrity," an unnamed official with the map's publishers told the newspaper.

source: reuters.com
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US Accuses China of Dangerous Actions at Sea

Stars and Stripes | Jun 27, 2014 | by Erik Slavin

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan -- China is intentionally disregarding diplomacy in favor of force while staking its claim to territory in the Asia-Pacific, the State Department's top official for the region told a Senate committee Wednesday.

Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel's comments came as Vietnamese officials and news outlets issued fresh images purportedly showing Chinese ships ramming Vietnamese vessels within the disputed waters of the South China Sea.

"China -- as a strong and rising power -- should hold itself to a high standard of behavior," Russel told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 25. "To willfully disregard diplomatic and other peaceful ways of dealing with disagreements and disputes in favor of economic or physical coercion is destabilizing and dangerous."

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Ex-US admiral: 'Equally forceful' Philippines needed in sea row
By Camille Diola (philstar.com)
June 27, 2014


MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines has to stand up to China's gray-zone challenges in the hotly contested South China Sea, instead of only reacting to its behavior.

Dennis Blair, retired chief of the United States Pacific Command and former Director of National Intelligence, said the Philippines, Japan and Vietnam "can't just sit there" and watch as China encroaches in what they consider sovereign territories.

"Of course, you need to think them through carefully, but if the Chinese want to play a game of 'I'll poke you here, and I'll poke you there,' then you have to respond and say, 'Game on'. Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam need to take initiatives of their own and be equally forceful in that space," Blair said in an interview with Asahi Shimbun, a transcript of which was posted Thursday.


Blair said China will keep on forcefully asserting its claims through unilateral declarations, but will not step beyond the "upper limit" of heightening tensions to become a major conflict.

"On the Chinese side, I think there is a similar sort of a ceiling because China knows that if a major conflict were to occur in the East China Sea or the South China Sea, the effect on China's economic development would be terrible. Below that limit, though, the Chinese are sitting around, thinking, 'Now, what can I do next? Let's see, I can extend the ADIZ (Air Defense Identification Zone), I can declare a new fishing zone, etcetera," he added.


Neighboring countries should then take advantage of China's self-imposed limit even as it grows in power and believes it can get its way, Blair said.

Blair, who was in the US Navy for 34 years, urged the Philippines and other claimant states to say, "Wait a minute! These are things that matter to us. These are our interests. Together we are stronger than you are. These are not things that we hand over to you just because your [gross domestic product] goes up 10 percent a year. Rival claimants cannot simply make concessions to a country as it grows in power. We have to figure out how to counter those actions," Blair said.




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China Lets Its Oil Rigs Do the Talking
A meeting with ASEAN has made little progress on resolving maritime disputes in the South China Sea.

By Luke Hunt
June 29, 2014


It passed with barely a word. A two-day meet in Bali this week was supposed to improve relations between China and the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It was touted widely in the Chinese-friendly press but in the end not even the sycophantic scribes of Beijing had much to say.

But Beijing's stance ahead of the meeting probably did not help the 11th ASEAN/China meet, which was meant to make some inroads on the much-vaunted Code of Conduct (CoC), first raised in 2002, and the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties (DoC) in the South China Sea.


"China has strictly adhered to the principle of the DoC and has exercised great restraint when facing provocation from other countries such as the Philippines and Vietnam. We hope these two countries will stop the provocative actions against China."

- Zhang Junshe, vice president of the Naval Research Institute

It's a policy, regurgitated ad nauseam by Communist Party wonks, that leaves no space for negotiations while challenging the rights of countries to unfettered access over their Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), which are delineated 200 nautical miles off their coasts.

If the additional rigs venture further south towards the Paracel Islands and again head inside Vietnam's EEZ then further hostilities are probable.

In behaving more like a 16th century colonial power as opposed to a nation that sees itself on par with the United States, Beijing has asserted a claim over 90 percent of the seas that divide China, mainland Southeast Asia, and the rest of ASEAN, through which about half of the world's trade passes.

Its assertion is non-negotiable, rendering any notion of a CoC, or the more juvenile DoC, hardly worth the airfares in getting the delegations to Bali. Perhaps it's time to scrap talks all together, at least until China adopts a more realistic approach befitting of a genuine world power in the 21st century.



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China: A superpower with no moral principles?
By Ted Laguatan
Tuesday, June 11th, 2013


Arrogance of power and false dangerous ego based nationalism can blind a nation's leaders and many of its people - leading them towards a dangerous path headed for sure disaster. How can leaders of nations and many of its citizens be so irrational or be so blind as not to see that they are bringing their people to hell?

If China's leaders are acting in good faith and truly believe that they have a valid claim, then they should have no problems in having their claim and the conflicting claims of other countries adjudicated in the International Tribunal on the Law of the Seas (ITLOS) utilizing the UNCLOS law to which they are signatories. Why won't China agree to this fair objective process meant to resolve ocean territorial disputes between countries unless China's leaders themselves know that they are pushing a bogus claim which cannot withstand judicial scrutiny?

In the interest of peace, seeking to avoid armed heated confrontation with the giant Chinese dragon and seeking a diplomatic solution, the Philippines has agreed to cool the situation in Scarborough by withdrawing its ships from the area with the understanding that China would do the same. Not only did China not withdraw its ships, it even increased their numbers and also roped off the area preventing Philippine fishing and patrol boats from entering Philippine territory which is only 120 miles from the Philippines' Zambales province and over a thousand miles from China.

In dealing with a country like China where moral principles are not primary considerations, we can expect that the only forces that will serve as leverage for the Philippines are factors that affect China's national pocketbook and the risk for them that other countries will ally with the Philippines including superpower USA which will equalize the face off.

I believe that if the Philippines wants to retain its territories and resources, it has no other choice but to immediately defend against China's intrusion. But this must be done intelligently. The Philippines must learn from the experience of Vietnam in 1988.

The Filipino people are called upon at this important time - to fight for the wellbeing and welfare of generations of Filipinos and defend the country against the obvious greed of a foreign aggressor.



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Jun 27 2014, 10:56 PM
Ex-US admiral: 'Equally forceful' Philippines needed in sea row
By Camille Diola (philstar.com)
June 27, 2014


MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines has to stand up to China's gray-zone challenges in the hotly contested South China Sea, instead of only reacting to its behavior.


Philstar



A Hawk's point of view and he pretty much spells it out in "capital letters".
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No choice: Destroy China's future PH military bases now
By Ted Laguatan
Friday, June 27th, 2014


Lodging the complaint with the International Tribunal on the Law of the Seas (ITLOS) against China's illegal and immoral invasion and use of brute force to take over Philippine atolls and islands was a good move.

However, it will take another two years or so before a decision is made. Moreover, China has refused to play by the rules and defiantly declared that it would not respect the decision of ITLOS.

There are those who say: "We cannot risk war with China." In truth and in fact, we are already at war with China.

These future Chinese military bases are the guns meant by China's leaders to possess global political power, an extremely perilous situation for all the countries in the region.

The Philippines must request from her mutual security partners the means to destroy these future bases now and the assurance of full support against retaliation.


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The million dollar question: Would your mutual security partners acquiesce to this? :scared:


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Jun 29 2014, 07:53 PM

The million dollar question: Would your mutual security partners acquiesce to this? :scared:

This report indicates that it ain't gonna happen or at least not likely to happen.


As China Flexes Muscle, Obama Frets Over Rival's Weakness
By David J. Lynch
Jun 30, 2014


China is tailgating Japanese warplanes, playing chicken with Vietnamese ships and questioning America's toughness. Yet it isn't Chinese strength that most worries President Barack Obama, it's Chinese fragility.

"We welcome China's peaceful rise. In many ways, it would be a bigger national security problem for us if China started falling apart at the seams."
- President Barack Obama


"China is undertaking massive transformations that are necessary for modern society, but in every case are socially destabilizing. And they're doing every one of them at a pace, scope and scale no country has ever tried before. The U.S. has a great deal riding on the outcome. In an extreme scenario, major turmoil could spark massive refugee flows or even endanger control of China's estimated 250 nuclear warheads. That's not a future you want to contemplate."
- Kenneth Lieberthal, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution


"The U.S. very much wants to support China's stability and economic growth. We don't engage in certain activities that would undermine their economic and political stability, in part because it wouldn't be in our interest."
- Ely Ratner, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security

Rather than indicating genuine concern over China's stability, Obama's comments may reflect an effort to soothe Chinese leaders' suspicions about the president's decision to devote more attention to Asia, said Andrew Nathan, a China specialist at Columbia University in New York.

Chinese leaders view Obama's so-called "rebalance" as a sign he wants to prevent the emergence of a rival superpower. By underscoring the American stake in a unified, prosperous China, Obama may be trying to ease such worries.

China's leaders are aware of their vulnerabilities.



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