Posted on 05/26/2015 7:59:39 PM PDT by Mariner
BEIJING (Reuters) - China outlined a strategy to boost its naval reach on Tuesday and announced plans for the construction of two lighthouses in disputed waters, developments likely to escalate tensions in a region already jittery about Beijing's maritime ambitions.
In a policy document issued by the State Council, the Communist-ruled country's cabinet, China vowed to increase its "open seas protection", switching from air defence to both offence and defence, and criticised neighbours who take "provocative actions" on its reefs and islands.
China has been taking an increasingly assertive posture over recent years in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, where it has engaged in extensive land reclamation in the Spratly archipelago.
China claims most of the South China Sea and criticised Washington last week after a U.S. spy plane flew over areas near the reefs. Both sides accused each other of stoking instability
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Mostly, we need to know if they can.
this is getting a little serious.
Lighthouse?
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“Lighthouse?”
A symbol of ownership and control.
Lighthouses are so like 19th century and such.
so +1 food and +1 gold from ocean tiles? /civ anyone?
Pei-Ping.
Correct.
A REAL claim.
One they intend to enforce with force of arms.
Oh, to have a president with a set.
“Like, lighthouses aren’t, like, dangerous. They don’t like, have guns an’ other scary stuff. Lighthouses provide jobs, an’, so, they, like, prevent terrorism.” - Marie Harf
If building an island in the middle of the ocean establishes a claim to waters, lets dredge one up too.
The answer is to let them enjoy their island, and never recognize the claim to the adjacent waters. Sail around it, and fly above it anytime you please.
Basically announce that we will treat is as no more than a Chinese ship. In fact, we should communicate with the islands exactly as though they WERE a ship.
Their strategy is smart —building carriers takes a LONG time, and even longer to figger out how to use them.
Dredging?
Yeah, you suck up sand from over there, then dump it over HERE —just keep sucking and dumping to all hell.
Once you’ve got a real ton of those and their corresponding exclusion zones, it’s like they’re a whole bunch of super cheap, stationary carriers, and you can bug passing ships and planes AD INFINITUM.
They intend to make life for non-Chinese in the South and East China seas utter hell —permanently.
I guess the next big step will be when they shoot down either a Japanese or American recon plane.
Chicoms, like all bullies, are wussies when they find resistance. The Philippines not too long ago was capturing Chinese fishing vessels violating their waters and blowing them up. Chicoms didn’t do squat.
Obama will do nothing and they know it.
That’s why they’re doing this, because of our current POTUS.
Targets. Fire at will!
The Matra Durandal comes to mind.
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