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| China tightening grip on Spratlys; merge threads, updates | |
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| MSantor | May 5 2014, 10:49 PM Post #61 |
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From the AP via the Philippine Star:
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"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." - Henry Ford "Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill "If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking"- Gen. George S. Patton | |
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| Hong Nam | May 7 2014, 12:27 AM Post #62 |
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Bought by China
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PLA may build airfield on disputed South China Sea island 2014-05-04 China, aided by the People's Liberation Army Navy, may soon build a military facility on the disputed Johnson South Reef to expand its scope in the region, according to Duowei News, an outlet run by overseas Chinese. The reef, part of the contested Spratly islands in the South China Sea, is currently under Chinese administration but also claimed by Vietnam. It belongs to Sansha prefecture, a prefecture-level city of southern China's Hainan province established in 2012, comprising the Spratly islands, the Paracel islands and the Macclesfield Bank. The entire Chinese territory is disputed. China has learned valuable lessons from the Johnson South Reef Skirmish with Vietnam in 1988, when Beijing found that it would be close to impossible to drive Vietnam out of the Spratlys without a strong air force. Want China Times |
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| dewey | May 14 2014, 01:16 PM Post #63 |
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metro aide sweeper
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looks like its confirmed ^^ DFA: China reclaiming land in disputed sea http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2014/05/14/1323023/dfa-china-reclaiming-land-disputed-sea looks like a dual purpose base to me, for having a base to counter vietnam and to counter us. haaay, this is madness! can any world governing body do anything about this? an arbitration is ongoing, yet theyre doing this? i think theyre rushing the construction before any judgemnt is passed. and i think the purpose of them not joining the arbitration is for them not stopping any activities in the spratlys. theryre mocking everything ang everyone. somebody should clip this giant before it gets too big to handle. theyre already a handful right now. maybe, we should be fortifying every island we are still holding or else they will just scoop everything in one motion
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| Hong Nam | May 14 2014, 03:05 PM Post #64 |
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How can this be? Everyone else follows the rules but China makes them up or changes them as the "game" progresses.
Johnson South Reef Two can play the "game" - Second Thomas Shoal / Ayungin Shoal - You can also reply that the reef belongs to you. Edited by Hong Nam, May 14 2014, 03:15 PM.
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| dewey | May 14 2014, 03:44 PM Post #65 |
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china is playing a very dirty game. they say that we should follow the rule of the sea yet theyre not following it. when we resupply our detachment, they holler as if its such a big deal. they do all this "protest \ commotion" while they themselves are doing at a far more worst extent. this is why i say, somebody should keep them in their place and clip their asses while somebody else can, or else everybody will soon be at their mercy. this is really going south grp should really repair the pagasa strip or offer the islands for edca use. that way, everybody can monitor the chinese movements in the area. just imagine a long range radar in pag asa plus a small detachment of US forces there? |
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| Hong Nam | May 14 2014, 05:35 PM Post #66 |
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China rejects PH protest vs airstrip construction on Mabini Reef in Spratlys - DFA Manuel Mogato, Reuters Jaime Sinapit, InterAksyon.com May 14, 2014 11:14 AM MANILA - China has rejected the Philippine protest over the apparent construction of an airstrip on Mabini Reef (also known as Johnson South Reef) in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday. Philippine Foreign ministry spokesman Charles Jose told Reuters that China had been moving earth and materials to Mabini Reef, known by the Chinese as Chigua, in recent weeks. He said China was reclaiming land in violation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea, an informal code of conduct for the region also known as DOC. If confirmed, the airstrip would be the first built by China on any of the eight reefs and islands it occupies in the Spratly Islands and would mark a significant escalation in tensions involving several nations in the area. "What we can confirm is that there is ongoing reclamation or earthmoving activities in that portion. I don't know the exact size. Some say it's 500 meters, others say 300 meters, and still others 300 by 300. They have existing structure that has been there for several years already. They have old structures there but now we observed sometime early this year, January or February, we observed it's become bigger and bigger." - Peter Paul Galvez, Defense spokesman "The construction is a violation of the DOC. It specifies that no new structures should be built. This is a clear violation of the DOC. This is an outright violation of the DOC. We have kept and will keep to it, as we have done in the past, we will keep to our promises under the agreement entered into together with other regional partners and we hope that they do the same." - anonymous Philippine military official Interaksyon Edited by Hong Nam, May 14 2014, 10:23 PM.
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| dewey | May 14 2014, 05:53 PM Post #67 |
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dfa should post those photos. then label it as: "china illegally building structures in the johnson reef" . that should make headlines these should be the reason for all the diversions they present, so that these illegal construction goes on w/o distraction
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| Hong Nam | May 14 2014, 11:46 PM Post #68 |
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Let me do it for you!
That's a huge undertaking when you consider this (photo below) was the existing structure a few years ago. It can still be discerned to be on the left side of the current reclamation project. ![]() However, the Vietnamese must have been this first to notice this activity as they are the ones who control Sin Cowe Island which is within the immediate vicinity. - Why haven't you heard anything from their side? - Why did it have to be you (the Philippines) who brought it up at the latest ASEAN conference in Burma? - Am I right to assume that they were silent with regards to this matter? Edited by Hong Nam, May 15 2014, 12:03 AM.
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| Hong Nam | May 15 2014, 12:31 AM Post #69 |
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There you go gentlemen... It's time to start "renovating" the BRP Sierra Madre. Besides it's in the scope of your sovereignty, your territory, and you don't see why the Chinese have to care so much about this. Edited by Hong Nam, May 15 2014, 12:37 AM.
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| dewey | May 15 2014, 01:25 AM Post #70 |
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now that there are pictures coming out. theres nothing they could do but confirm. liars liars liars! thats right. i think that the cue. grp, you heard them, theres nothing anybody could do when its a matter entirely within the scope of our territory. i think its time invite them seabees to all the islands / shoals thats in our territory and start building them concrete structures.
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