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solarz

solarz

Brigadier
confusion said:
It's likely that China moved in quickly at Jackson Atoll to prevent another incident similar to that on Second Thomas Shoal. Either way, due to precedence, the grounding of another Filipino vessel on an unoccupied feature provides China with excellent cover for moving in to control the feature. We'll see if this move is permanent or temporary.

The bit at the end about Half-Moon Shoal is to be expected as well. Now that it has the capacity to patrol the Spratly Islands, China will not allow the Filipino navy to approach other unoccupied features.

Using this source since it has the most information and all others are quoting this as the primary source as of right now:
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This sounds like China has set up an improved logistic system that has allowed them to deploy maritime enforcement patrols to areas where they couldn't maintain a presence before. I'm guessing this is because of the bases constructed at the reclaimed islands.

I'm waiting for the day China can turn one or more of those reclaimed islands into tourist resorts. :)
 
Blackstone

Blackstone

Brigadier
Jura said:
... both exercising the right of an innocent passage LOL!

(I didn't know what's the Chinese ship about, found this vid:
enjoy the music :)
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I enjoyed the martial music, the um-pa um-pa rhythm sounds reminds me of Panzerlierd (I mean just the music, no political connotations).

 
yuxiaochen

yuxiaochen

Junior Member
I took these photos on Woody island while during the Chinese New Year holiday, The first photo is the ship 999 docked at the military port, "supposedly transporting "goods" to the island (this was just before all the HQ-9 stuff). The 2nd and 3rd photo show the monument erected that documents the establishment of Sansha city and the map of South China Sea. the 4th photo show an old terra-forming ship operating in the civilian dock, and the last photos are just some great views around the island.

Enjoy.

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PS: I also saw some planes ;P
 
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confusion

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Don't know how accurate this is, but this report claims that China is planning to build a bridge from Qilianyu to Woody Island in the Paracels. Linking Tree Island to Qilianyu is fairly easy, but Woody Island is perhaps almost 10 km away from Qilianyu - not really sure if it makes much sense to build this bridge, especially if they're also considering building a separate runway on Qilianyu itself.

Also reports that they're planning to reclaim all of Qilianyu and Tree Island - 15 square km in total.

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China expanding land area of another South China Sea islet
Taipei, March 7 (CNA) China is carrying out a landfill project to increase the size of Qilianyu in the Paracel (Xisha) Islands and then build a bridge linking it to the PRC-occupied Woody (Yongxing) Island, a Hong Kong media reported Monday.

The Qilianyu sub-group of the Paracels is composed of North Island, Middle Island, South Island, North Sand, Middle Sand, South Sand and Zhaoshu Island.

A land-reclamation project is currently proceeding between the North and South Island, according to an online report of Ta Kung Pao.

When the project is completed, an airport will be built on one of the expanded island whose size will be larger than that of Yongxing Island, Ta Kung Pao said.

Yongxing, originally with an land area of 2.13 square km, has been expanded to over 3 square km through a land reclamation project.

Under PRC control, it is administered by the Yongxingdao Neighborhood Committee and is the seat of Sansha, a prefecture-level city of Hainan province.

Qilianyu, with a land size of 1.32 square km, will be expanded to 15 square km, enough to build a aircraft runway, said Ta Kung Pao.

In noted that Shansha City began work on linking up Qilian's North, Middle and South islands in May, 2014 and an artificial landmass now joins North and Middle islands. A large-scale land claiming project is being planned for the western part of the platform between Zhaoshu Island and West Sand.

A group of Shansha City officials visited Qilianyu Feb. 19 to study the ecology, natural scenery, transportation and other aspects related to developing the area, according to an earlier report of Hainan Daily.

The Chinese authorities plan to enlarge the reef platform, which now covers an area of 21 square km. The population on the area has exceeded 200, mostly on Zhaoshu Island.

According to a report last September, China has obtained 2,900 acres of land through landfill projects on seven of eight South China Sea islands that it controls over the past two years, and build three airports and other infrastructures on three of them, including a 3,000-meter airstrip on the Fiery Cross Island.
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