China's SCS Strategy Thread

PhSt

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So the report claims that the advance party had breached the Chinese blockade in Huáng Yán Dǎo and entered its lagoon, when we look at this satellite photo, the only opening to the lagoon is a small inlet in the south east, I don't see how China's vast fleet wont be able to secure this entrance, its possible that the report is just another PsyOps operation to score propaganda points for clueless Filipinos. Besides, the photos could have been taken anywhere within the vicinity of CCG ships and then presented as being inside the Huáng Yán Dǎo lagoon.

Scarborough_Shoal_Landsat.jpg
 

LawLeadsToPeace

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I wonder when China will send tourists into these shoals for more photo op. Using Coast Guard to block these tiny vessels seem overkill. What we need is Chinese tourists to show their own flag and start a quarel with them at sea.
Which then could escalate into a full-on fight between the two groups. Such a fight could then drag in both sides’ Coast Guards and will endanger both sides’ people.
 

ansy1968

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So the report claims that the advance party had breached the Chinese blockade in Huáng Yán Dǎo and entered its lagoon, when we look at this satellite photo, the only opening to the lagoon is a small inlet in the south east, I don't see how China's vast fleet wont be able to secure this entrance, its possible that the report is just another PsyOps operation to score propaganda points for clueless Filipinos. Besides, the photos could have been taken anywhere within the vicinity of CCG ships and then presented as being inside the Huáng Yán Dǎo lagoon.

Scarborough_Shoal_Landsat.jpg
Between the entrance there is a large CCG vessel deployed and rotated each year to guard the shoal against overfishing, only within the periphery did they allowed them to fish. That mouth had been dredge by the Chinese precisely to claim sovereignty over shoal.
 
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