Posted on 11/22/2015 2:58:53 AM PST by WhiskeyX
China said on Sunday it will continue to build military and civilian facilities on its artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea and the United States was testing it by sending warships through the area.
"Building and maintaining necessary military facilities, this is what is required for China's national defense and for the protection of those islands and reefs," Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin told a news conference in Kuala Lumpur.
China planned to "expand and upgrade" the civilian facilities on the islands "to better serve commercial ships, fishermen, to help distressed vessels and provide more public services", Liu said, adding that China rejects the notion that it is militarizing the South China Sea. He said China has mostly built civilian facilities.
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One of these days, they will pay dearly when a super typhoon comes barreling through.
Why should China slow down their imperial communist efforts? It’s not like the sissy in chief is going to do anything to stop them, unless he raises his fist angrily and tries to cast another snappy patter spell on his followers.
“Isle Thing”
by Al
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16cf2eN_cgQ
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