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China tightening grip on Spratlys; merge threads, updates
Topic Started: Jun 25 2012, 06:46 PM (30,263 Views)
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China wraps up naval drills with 3 warships in South China Sea
By: Christian Shepherd, Reuters
February 17, 2017 8:48 PM

BEIJING - Three Chinese warships on Friday wrapped up a week of scheduled training exercises in the South China Sea, state media said, shortly after China's sole aircraft carrier tested its weapons in the disputed region.

The flotilla of warships, including a destroyer that can launch guided missiles, had been conducting drills since Friday last week and were now sailing to the eastern India Ocean and the Western Pacific, the official Xinhua News Agency said.


Exercises by the Chinese ships, in particular the aircraft carrier Liaoning, in recent months have unnerved its neighbors, especially given long-running territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

The training included sudden attack drills and had been carried out successfully in poor sea conditions, Xinhua said.

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China finishing South China Sea buildings that could house missiles - US officials
By: A Reuters Exclusive by Idrees Ali
February 22, 2017 5:37 PM

WASHINGTON - China, in an early test of US President Donald Trump, has nearly finished building almost two dozen structures on artificial islands in the South China Sea that appear designed to house long-range surface-to-air missiles, two US officials told Reuters.

The development is likely to raise questions about whether and how the United States will respond, given its vows to take a tough line on China in the South China Sea.

China claims almost all the waters, which carry a third of the world's maritime traffic. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims. Trump's administration has called China's island building in the South China Sea illegal.


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China begins new work on disputed South China Sea island

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By Greg Torode
3 hrs ago

China has started fresh construction work in the disputed South China Sea, new satellite images show, a sign that Beijing is continuing to strengthen its military reach across the vital trade waterway.

Regional military attaches and experts believe the work shows China's determination to build up its network of reefs and islets, even if it is seeking to avoid a fresh confrontation with the new administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

An image of North Island in the Paracels group taken on March 6 shows recent work including land clearing and possible preparation for a harbour to support what experts believe may be eventual military installations. Initial work was damaged in a typhoon last year.

The pictures, provided by private satellite firm Planet Labs, follow reports in January showing work undertaken on nearby Tree Island and other features in the Paracels, which are also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan.

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China govt will never do what they say. They are liars. And I don't know why my CIC is making a blind-eye and making the Filipino's like stnp!d to believe the Chinese govt is doing peaceful in "our own & internationally recognized PH jurisdiction"!
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Although quite relevant to their expansionist policies in the South China Sea. I wasn't sure as where to post this. So I will leave it up to the mods.

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China's Most Important South China Sea Military Base

By Damen Cook
March 09, 2017



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Near the picturesque city of Sanya, at the southernmost tip of Hainan Island, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy is methodically preparing itself for the next phase of power projection in the South China Sea. The site in question is the Yulin Naval Base, and it is shaping up to be the most strategically important military base in the South China Sea. In fact, it may already hold the title, depending largely on the current nuclear submarine traffic flowing in and out of Yulin’s underground facility. Theater and point defense assets have been deployed, degaussing and weapons-loading facilities appear operationally ready - as do the administrative buildings, munitions transportation systems, and geological fortifications - and much of the South Sea Fleet’s submarine force has already nestled itself deep into the resident mountain. With a healthy mix of surface vessels, anti-aircraft and anti-ship missile platforms, and both conventional attack and nuclear deterrent submarines, Yulin’s strategic value is steadily rising. And with it rises China’s coercive power in the South China Sea and its surrounding waterways.


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A Closer Look at China's Critical South China Sea Submarine Base

By Damen Cook
March 18, 2017


Base Infrastructure

The People’s Republic has methodically assembled the necessary force structure to make Yulin a major command and control centre. The sizeable, dense mountain makes for effective, bunkered defense in case of a major bombing raid. The base is designed to accommodate a wide variety of conventional and nuclear forces, enhancing China’s coercive power in the South China Sea.

Striking Yulin

The United States could, certainly, successfully strike Yulin and other targets on Hainan Island. Striking Yulin-East is doable, but difficult. U.S. forces would likely need to fight their way through Chinese Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS) in the South China Sea to reach Hainan.


Glaring Strategic Vulnerability

China’s decision to build one submarine tunnel entrance into the mountain at Yulin-East leaves the resident submarines vulnerable to being trapped. A B-2 Spirit could slide right through China’s air defense network, drop two Massive Ordnance Penetrators at the tunnel entrance. If the MOPs perform as planned, the submarine sanctuary within Yulin-East will have become a cage.

Still, what looks like an obvious strategic flaw is likely instead a calculated risk. China’s Jin-class submarines, as second-strike guarantors, would spend as little time inside the mountain as possible.


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China to build on Scarborough this year
By: Reuters
March 18, 2017 8:17 AM

China will begin preparatory work this year for an environmental monitoring station on Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, an official said, as two US senators introduced a bill to impose sanctions on its activities in the disputed waterway.

China seized the strategic shoal, which is also claimed by the Philippines, in 2012 and the United States has warned Beijing against carrying out the same land reclamation work there that it has done in other parts of the South China Sea.

This week, Xiao Jie, the mayor of what Beijing calls Sansha City, an administrative base for disputed South China Sea islands and reefs it controls, said China planned preparatory work this year to build environmental monitoring stations on a number of islands, including Scarborough Shoal.

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:headbang: What kind of president would say such a thing??? This is worse than being defeatist! The disparity in military forces may be quite clear, but it's still not a reason to not even try to defend territory that one claims.

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Duterte: can't stop China developing Panatag Shoal
By: Agence France-Presse | With InterAksyon.com
March 19, 2017 5:41 PM

MANILA, Philippines - President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday he could not stop China from building on a disputed shoal near his country's west coast because it was too powerful.

The mayor of China's Sansha city has reportedly said his country would set up an environmental monitoring station on Scarborough Shoal, which China seized from the Philippines in 2012.

"We cannot stop China from doing (these) things," Duterte told journalists when asked about the reports.

"What do you want me to do? Declare war against China? I can't. We will lose all our military and policemen tomorrow and we (will be) a destroyed nation," he told a press conference before departing for a visit to Myanmar.


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China can deploy warplanes on South China Sea islands any time - think tank
By: David Brunnstrom, Reuters
March 28, 2017 11:50 AM


WASHINGTON -- China appears to have largely completed major construction of military infrastructure on artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea and can now deploy combat planes and other military hardware there at any time, a US think tank said on Monday.

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, part of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the work on Fiery Cross, Subi and Mischief Reefs in the Spratly Islands included naval, air, radar and defensive facilities.

The think tank cited satellite images taken this month, which its director, Greg Poling, said showed new radar antennas on Fiery Cross and Subi.

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China fighter plane spotted on South China Sea island: think tank
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A Chinese fighter plane has been spotted on a Chinese-held island in the South China Sea, the first such sighting in a year and the first since U.S. President Trump took office, a U.S. think tank reported on Thursday.

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI), part of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the J-11 fighter was visible in a satellite image taken on March 29 of Woody Island in the Paracel island chain.

News of the sighting came as Trump was in Florida for meetings with China's President Xi Jinping on Thursday and Friday at which he is expected to air U.S. concerns about China's pursuit of territory and militarization of outposts in the South China Sea.

"This isn’t a first, but it’s the first time in a year," AMTI director Greg Poling said of the jet sighting.

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