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China tightening grip on Spratlys; merge threads, updates
Topic Started: Jun 25 2012, 06:46 PM (30,277 Views)
ganymede09
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maybe the're actually trying to place their 9-dash lie on the water similar to their fake maps :lollol:
LET'S RAISE OUR MIDDLE FINGERs TO THE MIDDLE KINGDOM.
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South China Sea: Satellite Imagery Makes Clear China’s Runway Work at Subi Reef
New satellite imagery shows work well advanced on a combat-capable air facility.


By Victor Robert Lee
September 10, 2015


Satellite imagery of Subi Reef in the South China Sea taken September 3, 2015 clearly shows subgrading for a runway. At a width of approximately 60 meters, the subgrading could support a runway equal in width to that recently constructed by China at Fiery Cross Reef. The current extent of subgrading at Subi is approximately 2,200 meters, with obvious preparations for a longer span underway. As previously reported, the size and shape of China’s land fill at Subi could ultimately accommodate a runway 3,300 meters long, as well as a parallel taxiway like that at Fiery Cross. No laying of pavement is observed in the current imagery.

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emesber
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New China facility seen to put Pag-asa Island in peril


MANILA, Philippines –

China is building a combat-capable air facility on Zamora (Subi) Reef in South China Sea in a development seen to jeopardize the Philippines’s possession of the nearby Pag-asa Island.

Satellite photos published Thursday by foreign affairs website The Diplomat showed that China is subgrading for a runway at a width of about 60 meters.

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The website said the extent of subgrading at Zamora Reef is about 2,200 meters “with obvious preparations for a longer span underway.”
“As pointed out by analysts, these military facilities and others newly constructed by China in the Spratlys would increase Beijing’s capacity to enforce an air defense identification zone in the South China Sea, if it were to declare one,” the report said.

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The projects are also expected to significantly improve the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s capability for anti-submarine warfare, the website added.

Military historian Jose Custodio said the Philippines is in danger of losing Pag-asa Island because of the facility being built by China. The Philippine-occupied island is just 12 nautical miles from Zamora Reef.

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If they (China) are able to operate this (facility), they can seal off the area and conduct a blockade. The Chinese can prohibit an aircraft from landing on the island,” Custodio told reporters yesterday in Camp Aguinaldo.

Pag-asa is the second largest island in the disputed Spratlys chain and is being occupied by about 200 civilians and Filipino soldiers. China is claiming that the Philippines illegally occupied the area, which it calls Zhongye Island.

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The Philippine government has been conducting supply missions to support the residents of Pag-asa, which is located within Kalayaan, a fifth class town of Palawan.

Custodio said China can use its military muscle to pressure the Philippines to give up Pag-asa. He said it would be difficult for the government to maintain Pag-asa once China’s base becomes operational.

“Subi can unhinge our presence there (in Pag-asa),” Custodio said.

“If they (military facilities) become operational, how will it affect us? Will we continue to provide supplies or withdraw?” he added.

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Sought for comment, Defense department spokesman Peter Galvez said the photos published by The Diplomat have “much similarity” with the images they have monitored.

The news website’s photos were taken by commercial satellite imaging company Digital Globe last September 3.

The Diplomat said the size of China’s landfill at Zamora could accommodate a runway 3,300 meters long and a parallel taxiway like that at Kagitingan (Fiery Cross) Reef.

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Kagitingan Reef (Fiery Crosss)

The online report said no laying of pavement has been observed so far but a section of the north rim of the reef is being widened by extending a large retaining wall into the sea and backfilling the enclosed water area with sediment.

“Elsewhere, dozens of bulldozers, cranes, trucks and tracked excavators are redistributing and compacting hundreds of acres of sand,” The Diplomat report said.

Aside from Subi, China is also building structures in Panganiban (Mischief), Kagitingan (Fiery Cross), Kennan (Chigua), Mabini (Johnson South), Burgos (Gaven) and Calderon (Cuarteron) Reefs, areas that are also being claimed by the Philippines.

The Philippines has been vocal in criticizing China’s construction projects, saying they undermine the stability in the region and affect freedom of navigation.

http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/09/11/1498606/new-china-facility-seen-put-pag-asa-island-peril

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China building combat-capable air facility on reef

Alexis Romero, The Philippine Star
Posted at 09/12/2015 9:11 AM
MANILA, Philippines - China is building a combat-capable air facility on Zamora (Subi) Reef in the South China Sea in a development seen to jeopardize the Philippines’ possession of nearby Pag-asa Island.

Satellite photos published last Thursday by the website The Diplomat showed China is subgrading for a runway at a width of about 60 meters.

The website said the extent of subgrading at Zamora Reef is about 2,200 meters “with obvious preparations for a longer span underway.”

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It is nearly impossible to get back the reefs taken by China



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It is nearly impossible to get back the reefs taken by China which they made as artificial islands with naval and military fortifications,
the best way now is to secure and defend the remaining islands and reefs occupied by the Philippines.

•Pagasa Island (Thitu Island]
•Likas Island (West York Island)
•Parola Island (Northeast Cay)
•Lawak Island (Nanshan Island)
•Kota Island (Loaita Island)
•Patag Island (Flat Island)
•Panata Island (Lankiam Cay)
•Rizal Reef (Commodore Reef)
•Balagtas Reef (Irving Reef)
•Ayungin Reef (Second Thomas Reef)

Our government must offer to use as military / naval bases some of our islands in Kalayaan islands group to the American military forces.
since it is nearly impossible for the Philippines to counter a full scale PRC Chinese invasions without American military helps.


In the below video of China's V-day military parade in Beijing, China is threatening the US, Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

China’s V-Day military parade in Beijing 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoC0Xcjko0A

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Edited by emesber, Sep 13 2015, 11:00 AM.
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China's island airstrips heighten South China Sea underwater rivalry
Wed Sep 16, 2015 11:48pm EDT

By Greg Torode

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's apparent construction of a third airstrip on its man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea could fill a gap in Beijing's anti-submarine defenses, complicating operations for the U.S. Navy and its allies, Chinese and Western experts said.

While most attention has been on the power projection China would get from its new islands in the Spratly archipelago, China could also use them to hunt rival submarines in and beyond the strategic waterway, they said.

Possessing three airstrips more than 1,400 km (870 miles) from the Chinese mainland would enable Beijing to extend the reach of Y-9 surveillance planes and Ka-28 helicopters that are being re-equipped to track submarines, the experts added.

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China completes runway on Fiery Cross Reef | IHS Jane's 360 - 24 September 2015

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Airbus Defence and Space imagery dated 20 September 2015 shows ongoing development of the artificial island created at Fiery Cross Reef in the South China Sea. The runway is complete with markings installed, including helipads, suggesting a potential for use in the near future. (© CNES 2015, Distribution Airbus DS / 2015 IHS)
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An even bigger and clearer photograph can be seen here.

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Edited by Hong Nam, Sep 26 2015, 08:03 PM.

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Constructions Mecaniques de Normandie - C Sword 90



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China completes construction of lighthouses in disputed South China Sea
Fri Oct 9, 2015 11:02pm EDT

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has completed the construction of two lighthouses in the disputed South China Sea, the official Xinhua news agency reported, as tensions in the region mount over Beijing's maritime ambitions.

A completion ceremony was held for the lighthouses on Cuateron Reef and Johnson South Reef in the Spratly islands, Xinhua said late on Friday. The United States and the Philippines have opposed the construction.

China claims most of the energy-rich South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year, and the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have overlapping claims.

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The role of China's Hainan Island province in the continuing disputes over the SCS/WPS:

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Which South China Sea Island Holds the Greatest Military Significance?
Hainan and China’s unfinished frontier wars.


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By Greg Austin
October 13, 2015

We in East Asia are indeed living in peaceful times. That is the inevitable conclusion one draws in reflecting on the archives of U.S. military intelligence files from the 1930s and 1940s. In one document, Japan’s ambition, declared in January 1941 by its foreign minister, was frightening. Fresh from negotiations with the Dutch for an oil concession in the Netherlands East Indies, and mediation between Thailand French Indo-China, he told the Diet that the whole world should accept Japan’s racial idea of “hakko ichiu” (eight directions of the world under one roof), a nationalist slogan interpreted variously as a call to “universal brotherhood” (the soft version) or Japanese military domination of East Asia, and then the world, through a sacred or holy war (the main meaning as events came to show).

In 1945, American psyops teams–foreshadowing the collapse of Japan’s militarist regime–capitalized on this phrase by telling the Japanese people that they were being invaded from “eight directions,” a rather bitter irony for them.

At a more granular level, another lesson leaps off the pages of the U.S. archives, at least for me. This is a reminder of the role of Hainan in the geopolitics of the South China Sea compared with the much less significant, at least in military terms, Spratly Islands. The history of Hainan and its strategic significance both during the long Sino-Japanese war (1931-1945), and after, is not often canvassed in current discussions of the shifting geopolitical realities.

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