China's SCS Strategy Thread

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[Hendrik_2000]

google earth just updated the SCS images 12/2018 From Thomas Shugart blog

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This island base is not the same as WWII Japanese outpost in pacific This is huge almost the same as air base come with naval base plus missile base and sophisticated radar station maybe even underwater listening post

 

[Hendrik_2000]

Missile hangar with retractable roof

 

[Hendrik_2000]

 

[Tyler]

Exactly, US gave RoC USS Decker for South China Sea patrol, which was immediately named Taiping, peace and set sail to south china sea. The Taiping island was named after the ship.

The Chinese should inform the world of this piece of information.

 

[Jura The idiot]

It is mind boggling when at the end of WWII US navy transported Kuomintang sailor and marine to reoccupy Taiping island from the Japanese.

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(An American force had landed on Itu Aba in November 1945 and discovered that the wartime Japanese garrison had departed. A French warship, the FR Chevreuil had landed a team on Itu Aba in October 1946, two months before the Tai-ping arrived.)

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A tacit recognition of Chinese sovereignty over Spratly

Now they say China has no sovereignty over Spratly and Paracel Island A case of fork tongue

anyway

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[PanAsian]

He was a career foreign service officer who wrote briefings for Kissinger's secret trips to China. One of the earlier US China hands and main interpreter for Nixon in his China trip.

The United States and China: Game of Superpowers
Chas Freeman 2018-02-08 Asia, China, Diplomacy, Economics, Europe, Finance, Global, Japan, Korea, Military, Russia, Science, Speeches, Strategy, Taiwan, U.S. Foreign Policy, War

The United States and China: Game of Superpowers
Remarks to the National War College Student Body

Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.)
Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
February 8, 2018 Fort Lesley J. McNair, D. C.

Very informative and accurate overview of the situation when it comes to the dynamics of international relations and global trends, yet just another example of fallacious and self-defeating US "exceptionalism" and prejudiced opinions of others, in this case China, when it came to ideology, culture, and self-reflection or lack thereof.

With the large and inherent effects of international trade affecting domestic realities the world over, any discussion of international affairs without including domestic affairs is bound to be incomplete and lend itself to using prejudiced assumptions about self and others that obfuscate the real issues.

There are several important points that warrant independent confirmation such as China's official switch from disagreeing to agreeing with some of the US' interpretations of UNCLOS.

 

[Jura The idiot]

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China vows military action if Taiwan, sea claims opposed

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China’s defense minister warned Sunday that its military will “resolutely take action” to defend Beijing’s claims over self-ruled

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Speaking at an annual security conference in Singapore, Gen. Wei Fenghe did not direct the threat at the U.S. but loaded his address with criticism of activities by Washington, including support for Taiwan and leading so-called freedom of navigation operations in the strategic waterways that China virtually claims as its own.

Wei said the People's Liberation Army would not "yield a single inch of the country's sacred land."

China's ruling Communist Party maintains that Taiwan is part of China, and has used increasingly aggressive rhetoric toward the democratic island, which split from the mainland amid a civil war 70 years ago. It opposes Taiwan's independence and formally says it seeks a "peaceful reunification" while refusing to rule out the use of force if necessary to achieve that goal.

"The PLA has no intention to cause anybody trouble but it is not afraid to face up to troubles. Should anybody risk crossing the bottom line, the PLA will resolutely take action and defeat all enemies," Wei said.

Relations between Beijing and Taipei have deteriorated since Taiwan elected a pro-independence president, Tsai Ing-wen, in 2016. China has since increased diplomatic pressure, cut off its contacts with the island's government and discouraged travel there by Chinese tourists.

"China must be and will be reunified. We find no excuse not to do so. If anyone dares to split Taiwan from China, the Chinese military has no choice but to fight at all costs, at all costs, for national unity," Wei stressed.

"We will strive for the prospect of peaceful unification with utmost sincerity and greatest efforts, but we make no promise to renounce the use of force."

Wei was addressing defense chiefs, officials and academics at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.

U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who spoke to the same gathering on Saturday, was not present at Wei's speech. Shanahan called China's efforts to steal technology from other nations and militarize man-made outposts in the South China Sea a "toolkit of coercion" and urged it to stop activities the U.S. perceives as hostile.

China is pitted against smaller Southeast Asian neighbors in multiple disputes over island reefs, corals and lagoons in the South China Sea, where it constructed seven outposts equipped with airstrips, radar and missile stations that Shanahan said Saturday could become "tollbooths" in one of the world's busiest waterways.

Beijing is currently firming up a pact with four rival claimants, containing norms and rules aimed at preventing a shooting war in the disputed waters.

On Thursday, China’s Defense Ministry dismissed a report that

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earlier in May while exercising in the waters claimed by China. And on Sunday, Beijing closed off an area near Paracel Islands, which is also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan, for military training exercises.

Wei said China built "limited defense facilities" but much of it was aimed at improving services and infrastructure for people living there.

"It is only when there are threats would there be defenses. In face of heavily armed warships and military aircraft, how can we not deploy any defense facilities?" he said.

Most of the islands are uninhabited and have been

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from all sides to shelter during storms.

Wei and Shanahan met on the sidelines of the conference Friday and agreed to improve communication and deepen exchanges and cooperation between their militaries.

On Sunday, Wei said the countries recognize that a conflict or war between them would have wide-reaching effects.

"It takes two to cooperate but only one to start a fight," he said. "We hope that the U.S. side will work with us towards the same goal, follow the principles of non-conflict, non-confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation, and steer the China-US relations in the right direction."

China last sent a high-ranking general to the conference in 2011. Its officials have been quick to downplay this as a mere coincidence, given the busy schedules of their higher-ups.

But some observers see Wei’s presence this time as a pointed attempt by China to cement its relationships in the region amid a trade war with the U.S. and having its businesses targeted with sanctions.

 

[Gatekeeper]

China didn't get a chance to write the post WWII rules and treaties that still governs today's world.
Technically speaking Chinese civil war is still ongoing, both sides claiming to be the true ruler of one single unified China. RoC was given all right, title, and claim to Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores) as well as the Spratly Islands and the Paracel Islands in 1952 Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty drafted by US and signed by Japan to formally end the Sino-Japanese war.

Article 2
It is recognized that under Article 2 of the Treaty of Peace with Japan signed at the city of San Francisco in the United States of America on September 8, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the San Francisco Treaty), Japan has renounced all right, title and claim to Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores) as well as the Spratly Islands and the Paracel Islands.
1952 Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty

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Becareful, I think PRC wasn't involved, and therefore do not recognised the treaty. (I think the treaty mentioned Diayou island to Japan or something.

I could be wrong, so please don't take me to task on it.

 

[Gatekeeper]

It is mind boggling when at the end of WWII US navy transported Kuomintang sailor and marine to reoccupy Taiping island from the Japanese. A tacit recognition of Chinese sovereignty over Spratly

Now they say China has no sovereignty over Spratly and Paracel Island A case of fork tongue

Another inconveient truth the western MSM never mention to their readers.

Sometimes, omitting information delibrately to give a different view on a particular situation is as bad as lying about it.