Posted on 04/10/2022 11:49:34 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
China has set up three military bases on islands in the South China Sea, equipping them with anti-ship and anti-aircraft missile systems, laser and jamming gadgets while deploying fighter jets there, threatening nearby nations. The information was provided by US Indo-Pacific commander Admiral John C Aquilino who said "China has upgraded fully their potentialities and the expansion of military equipment is definitely undermining the region," reported The Singapore Post.
Aquilino further added that the build-up of the military bases with missile arsenals, aircraft hangars, military systems and facilities on Mischief Reef, Subi Reef and Fiery Cross seems to have been completed but it endured to be seen if China would further engage in the construction of the military bases in neighbouring areas.
Furthermore, the military facilities on the islands threaten all other nations who have stakes in the region and all the international sea and airspace nearby.
Earlier in February, a moving army vessel of the Chinese People's Liberation flashed a military-grade laser at a plane of the Australian air force while supervising coastline maritime surveillance.
This event does not occur in the South China Sea near China's coastline, but in the Arafura Sea, within the purview of Australia's absolute economic zone, off the country's north coast. From this one can establish, that this is the nearest military threat by the Chinese on Australia's coastline.
Aquilino commented the confrontational actions were in clear contradiction to the Chinese president Xi Jinping's past affirmation that Beijing would not modify the artificial islands in disputed waters into military bases. The efforts were part of China's showcasing its power, he said.
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Too late to do anything about them...
This needed to be stopped many years ago, but bush & obunghole simply shrugged and never uttered a peep...
Perfect place to test our nuclear arsenal.
We should take an old freighter. Load it up with raw sewage and run it aground right on the island.
I was working in the Pentagon when this was happening. Everyone was talking about a “pivot” to the Pacific. A realignment of forces. I kept hearing we can’t “out-China, China;” whatever that means.
All these talks never branched out to real actions that would challenge the Chinese. Say.....new basing rights in the Philippines or elsewhere. No sanctions for ignoring the ICJ ruling on boundaries. Nothing. Not a damn thing.
So why are we surprised the Chinese were looking at military capabilities and geography, in order to gain an economic and military advantage? As if it fell out of the sky.
ALL on Biden’s watch!
Because there is a s#it-ton of oil under the South China Sea and everyone wants it.
When the Chinese build a base on Guam Joe wont do a thing ...
I guess that's worse than threatening virtual nations.
A bunker buster airburst would destroy a Chinese base.
Sorry but we’re all booked up with Ukraine right now. We’ll get back to you when our schedule frees up. We’re looking at maybe late this summer.
Would be even better when they blew it up.
Whoever is serving on those bases has to know they eat it within the first thirty minutes of kinetic activities ensuing.
How strange and prophetic, in “1984,” Oceania had sailors on the “Floating Fortresses,”...militarized artificial islands.
“Whoever is serving on those bases has to know they eat it within the first thirty minutes of kinetic activities ensuing.”
Yup; not a lot of places to which to escape.
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