China last week created an administrative region called Sansha to manage the three archipelagos in the South China Sea, including the Paracels and the Spratlys.
1 posted on
12/13/2007 10:27:33 AM PST by
charles m
To: charles m
I believe China has militarized some of the islands as well, setting up bases and fortifying them.
With the PLAN's significant naval growth, the Vietnamese will be hard pressed to dislodge them militarily.
2 posted on
12/13/2007 10:34:45 AM PST by
Jeff Head
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To: charles m
Are there oil or gas deposits on or around these islands?
3 posted on
12/13/2007 10:37:07 AM PST by
Brad from Tennessee
("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
To: charles m
China claims the Pacific.
4 posted on
12/13/2007 10:45:46 AM PST by
truemiester
(If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
To: charles m
“The People’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.”
5 posted on
12/13/2007 10:48:15 AM PST by
denydenydeny
(Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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