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Blackstone

Blackstone

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siegecrossbow said:
Looks like Taiwan is also developing the heck out of their island.
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Completely understandable, since it will not give up Taiping no matter what the Arbitration Court says. Also, it's doubtful even neocons in Washington would threaten use of military might to force Taipei into surrendering the island to the Philippines, and I'm not sure even that would work.
 
siegecrossbow

siegecrossbow

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Blackstone said:
Completely understandable, since it will not give up Taiping no matter what the Arbitration Court says. Also, it's doubtful even neocons in Washington would threaten use of military might to force Taipei into surrendering the island to the Philippines, and I'm not sure even that would work.
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That's why neocons are dumb. Instead of rallying all the countries in the region against China, let's cause some nice infighting first.
 
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A Chinese military aircraft has for the first time publicly landed at a new airport on an island China has built in the disputed South China Sea, state media said on Monday, raising the prospect that China could base fighter jets there.

The United States has criticized China's construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea and worries that it plans to use them for military purposes, even though China says it has no hostile intent.

The runway on the Fiery Cross Reef is 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) long and is one of three China has been building for more than a year by dredging sand up onto reefs and atolls in the Spratly archipelago.

Civilian flights began test runs there in January.

In a front-page story, the official People's Liberation Army Daily said a military aircraft on patrol over the South China Sea on Sunday received an emergency call to land at Fiery Cross Reef to evacuate three seriously ill workers.

They were then taken in the transport aircraft back to Hainan island for treatment, it said, showing a picture of the aircraft on the ground in Hainan.

It was the first time China's military had publicly admitted landing an aircraft on Fiery Cross Reef, the influential Global Times tabloid said.

It cited an military expert as saying the flight showed the airfield was up to military standards and could see fighter jets based there in the event of war.
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ahojunk

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Aha. I just came across some pictures of the Navy plane that landed at Yongshu Island to pick up sick patients and transport them to Sanya, Hainan.

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PLA plane lands at Yongshu Jiao reef to help patients
2016-04-18 10:49 | chinadaily.com.cn | Editor:Li Yan

A PLA Navy flight that was patrolling the South China Sea suspended its task to help transport three severely ill patients from Yongshu Jiao reef in the Nansha Islands to Sanya city in Hainan province on Sunday.

The Yongshu Jiao reef has been in use since 1988 as a meteorological observation station as requested by UNESCO. Located in one of the world's busiest areas for air and sea travel, Yongshu Jiao is being developed to provide medical and other emergency services.

The airport on Yongshu Jiao reef was completed in January for humanitarian purposes, including emergency landings and maritime rescue.

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PLA Navy plane landed at Yongshu.
(Photo/t.people.com.cn/planavy)

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The flight lands at Yongshu Jiao airport to transport three workers who fell severely ill on the reef to Sanya of Hainan province for treatment.
(Photo/t.people.com.cn/planavy)

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Patients arrive at Sanya and are sent to a hospital on Sunday. (Photo/t.people.com.cn/planavy)

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The patients arrive at Sanya and are sent to a hospital on Sunday. Considering that transferring the patients from Yongshu Jiao to Sanya of Hainan is too time-consuming, and that the bumpy sea voyage can make patients uncomfortable, navy officials ordered a flight during a patrol to transport them.
(Photo/t.people.com.cn/planavy)

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Patients receive treatment at a hospital in Sanya on Sunday.
(Photo/t.people.com.cn/planavy)
 
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