Since the SCS Thread is now locked down, hence posting here for the record.
Today (August 15), the Chinese research ship Xiangyanghong #10 arrived in the waters near Huangyan Island, and was located near the entrance of the lagoon as shown by AIS signal of the research vessel.
The Jai Pagpag media reported that this is a "surprising and unusual development".
The Xiangyanghong #10 research ship is capable of carrying out comprehensive marine environmental observation, exploration, sampling and on-site analysis of the physical ocean, marine geology, geophysics, marine biology, marine chemistry, and marine meteorology in littoral, open ocean and deep sea regions.
Posted by @牧星观海天 on Weibo. Time to consider executing landfill expansion of Huangyan Island + Establish a permanent military outpost there?
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