Inside ‘Mischief Reef’ where China is building secret military base | World | News
For more than ten years, Chinese Secretly returned to an artificial island South China Sea A large military base that can be compared with a thousand -free aircraft carrier.
Naughty Reef, one of the largest archipelago in the South China Sea, was a ring -shaped candidate in the Spratly Islands. However, in the 1990s, China began to take the land back around the rim, It has been largely completed around 2015.
China claims sovereignty over more than 80% of the South China Sea, which is an energy -rich waterway 5 trillion dollars each year trade.
The Spratly Islands are part of these claims, as Chinese sea excavators create more than 3,000 acres in seven reefs. The archipelago is also requested by Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei.
What is the mischief?
At least two features called misbehaving and subi and fire and hot cross reefs are equipped with military infrastructure from air jokes to missile launchers, giving the people the ability to protect the power in the region.
Naughty Reef is located about 150 miles west of Palawan, A great Philippine Island Provinceand about 600 miles to the Hainan Island of China, the southern island of the country.
It is located in the exclusive economic region of the Philippines and allows the country to use its natural resources under the International Maritime Law.
China, claiming that the region was used to help fishermen, began to occupy the reef of mischief in 1994.
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Despite Chinese President Xi Jinping Xi Jinping’s at that time, Barack Obama, despite the militarization of the island’s police stations, many experts recorded a 10,000 -meter track, helicopter runways, warplane hangars and anti -ship missile systems.
The island, also known as Meiji Reef in Beijing and Philippines, provides great support to Chinese forces as it expands its military access in the Waters of the Philippines.
Asian leaders are back
In contrast, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the President of the Philippinine, returned to China’s presence and strengthened the coordination of defense with other allies in the United States and the region. The island is expected to remain an integral part of the maritime operations in the South China Sea of China.
“China can do [through its radar systems on artificial islands] See in a way that no one can do in the Southern China Sea, including the US, “he said.
The Philippine Defense Chief Gilberto Teodoro said there was a “confidence deficit” with China during the Shangi-La Dialogue Summit in Singapore in June.
“I look at 1995 in a place called Mischief Reef. There were a few bamboo structures planted there,” China said, “Fisher said that they are temporary paradise for the people. Now you have artificial military islands – slightly militarized.
