Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to Philippines Defense Forces Forum. We hope you enjoy your visit.


You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Vietnam vs China in the Paracel Islands, SCS; updates, discussions
Topic Started: Jun 25 2012, 06:56 PM (3,394 Views)
raider1011


Posted Image

original

February 17, 2016

QUESTION: China deploy a missile defense system in Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

SECRETARY KERRY: Well, we have said repeatedly with respect to China that the standard that should be applied to all countries with respect to the South China Sea is no militarization. When President Xi was here in Washington, he stood in the Rose Garden with President Obama and said China will not militarize in the South China Sea. But there is every evidence every day that there has been an increase of militarization of one kind or another. It’s of serious concern. We’ve had these conversations with the Chinese, and I’m confident that over the next days we will have further, very serious conversation on this. And my hope is that China will realize that it is important to try to resolve the jurisdictional issues of the South China Sea not through unilateral action, not through force, not through militarization, but through diplomacy and by working with the other countries and claimants in trying to resolve these differences. And we’ll have more to say on this in the next days for sure.

Thank you.


US Department of State
Edited by raider1011, Feb 19 2016, 12:59 AM.
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

|| Chester W. Nimitz

Loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

|| Mark Twain
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Hong Nam
Member Avatar
Bought by China



Posted Image
Diagram including a satellite image of the beach from Feb. 14. (ImageSat International)



Fox News




Posted Image
Constructions Mecaniques de Normandie - C Sword 90



Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Hong Nam
Member Avatar
Bought by China


Global Times never fails to amuse:

Quote:
 
South China Sea Missile Deployments Are ‘Not Militarization’ But US Naval Missions Could Lead To More: Chinese Media
BY DUNCAN HEWITT
02/18/16 AT 3:28 AM



SHANGHAI - China has defended the reported deployment of missiles on an island it occupies in disputed waters in the South China Sea, saying such moves were legitimate defense, while state media said they did not amount to "militarization," as the U.S. government has claimed.

In an editorial, the official Global Times newspaper added: “Defensive weapons were deployed on the island in the past. Even if the presence of the HQ-9 system is true as the West has claimed, it is a matter of China's sovereignty and it is fully legitimate for China to do so.” The article also suggested there was a difference between installing such systems on Woody Island — which has been under Chinese control for four decades, and where it said "sovereignty is not disputed" — and on other islands China has reclaimed on tidal reefs in the nearby Spratlys or Nansha chain over the past two years. The reclaimed islands have been the centre of massive controversy, since they are in an area claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, and four other countries, and the Global Times acknowledged that “disputes over the sovereignty of islands in Nansha are sharp.”



IB Times



Edited by Hong Nam, Feb 19 2016, 11:59 AM.

Posted Image
Constructions Mecaniques de Normandie - C Sword 90



Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Hong Nam
Member Avatar
Bought by China



Posted Image
The 200 mile Economic Exclusion Zone claimed by China around Woody Island and the overlapping 108 nm range of the HQ-9 SAM system.
Image via ISI.
[Image Sat International] http://defense-update.com/20160218_woody_island_hq9.html












Posted Image
Constructions Mecaniques de Normandie - C Sword 90



Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Hong Nam
Member Avatar
Bought by China

China Coast Guard loots Vietnamese fishing boat
TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 03/08/2016


A Vietnamese fishing boat was reportedly ambushed and looted by a China Coast Guard vessel off Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago on Sunday.
The fishing boat belongs to fishermen in Tam Quang Commune, Nui Thanh District, Quang Nam Province.

According to Lien, fishermen aboard the boat reported the incident to have occured at 12: 30pm on March 6. The boat, coded Qna-91.939 and owned by Vo Quang Thai, was carrying 10 sailors and fishing within Vietnam’s territory near Hoang Sa at the time, when China Coast Guard vessel number 46101 approached and took control of Thai’s boat.

Eleven men from the China Coast Guard ship boarded Thai’s boat and stole food and oil, as well as destroying all of their fishing gear and two basket boats.
Lien said the fishermen have not provided estimations of the total loss.

The fishing boat arrived at the An Hoa estuary in Nam Thanh District on the evening of March 7, and investigations followed on the morning of March 8.



Source



Edited by Hong Nam, Mar 11 2016, 11:32 PM.

Posted Image
Constructions Mecaniques de Normandie - C Sword 90



Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
« Previous Topic · West Philippine Sea · Next Topic »
Add Reply