PLAN SCS Bases/Islands/Vessels (Not a Strategy Page)

that was awesome perfume. please report more of what your brother in law does in SCS and the conditions there. this is first hand on the ground information. thanks that was most interesting.

Thanks for the report, perfume! Please continue to post whatever news you get from him.

Vietnam has been busy expanding its Spratly Islands outposts. Here are some recent photos from the .







It's nice to see medieval castle architecture making a come back in the South China Sea!

The has a photo it says is of the Chinese construction at Johnson South Reef.



Any idea of how big it is right now?

Geographer said:

Vietnam has been busy expanding its Spratly Islands outposts. Here are some recent photos from the

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It's nice to see medieval castle architecture making a come back in the South China Sea!

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Nice to see an old medievel castle cannon on top of the turret.

/ok I know it;s not but sure looks like one in this picture LOL

Good for repelling the dreadnaughts the PLAN are using.

perfume said:

He says almost all of the inhabited islands in the Paracels now have full 4G coverage and is connected with undersea fiber optics to the mainland in Hainan (mainly for military use).

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Interesting, makes me wonder if they ran a submarine power cable, it would give the Paracels a larger source of power with generators only used for critical pieces if the line for some reason lose service.

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has a photo it says is of the Chinese construction at Johnson South Reef.


Any idea of how big it is right now?

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Well, I heard it was going to be 500 meters by 200 meters, so that would be 1,500 feet by 600 feet approximately.

Over 1/4 mile long.

Here are a sequence of pictures of Johnson South Reef (called mabini Reef by the PRC) showing the progression of Chinese activity there between 2012 and now:


Pretty amazing the amount of material that the Chinese have brought in there and the "reclamation," work they have done building that island. Seems like they are building barrier walls too to try and help with and avoid erosion.

The first big typhoon that blows through there will be interesting to see how much, if any, of the material they lose.

Jeff Head said:

Here are a sequence of pictures of Johnson South Reef (called mabini Reef by the PRC) showing the progression of Chinese activity there between 2012 and now:

The first big typhoon that blows through there will be interesting to see how much, if any, of the material they lose.

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Actually the PRC calls it Chigua Reef. Mabini Reef is what the Philippines calls it.

Depends if they build a sea wall around it.

joshuatree said:

Interesting, makes me wonder if they ran a submarine power cable, it would give the Paracels a larger source of power with generators only used for critical pieces if the line for some reason lose service.

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Interesting idea, but it would be extremely expensive though considering the power need for the island I'd imagine very small (max 20MW?)