I thought Barry Obama and Al Gore said that petroleum is a thing of the past? Why are Vietnam, China and the Philippines fighting over oil, then?
if you browse the Spratley Is. on Google Earth you can see that these islands are far from Hainan and close to both Palawan P.I. and Vietnam .
Out in the middle . China should have no proximity claims here . Is it because they think anything that lies in the South CHINA Sea , theirs? What’s next , PRC claims Singapore ?
Or is it because they have boats ? What’s next , Hawaii ?
Lamers
They’re China. They have a bigger problem than what to do with an extra man at a dinner party.
Took them a while but it looks like China followed General Zhang Li’s recommendation...
...”The Pentagon disclosed in June (2019?) that China has fielded advanced anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles and electronic jamming equipment on the Spratly Islands, a group of reefs and islets located close to U.S. ally Philippines that China claims as its own territory. Military officials said the missiles threaten U.S. warships and aircraft that have stepped up freedom of navigation operations near the islands in a bid to counter Chinese claims to control over 90 percent of the South China Sea.
The missiles include YJ-12B anti-ship cruise missiles capable of targeting warships as far as 340 miles away, and HQ-9B long-range, surface-to-air missiles with ranges of up to 184 miles. They are stationed on Mischief Reef, Fiery Cross Reef, and Subi Reef in the Spratlys, effectively creating a buffer zone around the entire area. Electronic jammers were deployed on Fiery Cross and Mischief reefs...”