PLAN SCS Bases/Islands/Vessels (Not a Strategy Page)

...PLAN recent visit to Hawaii...



...East meets West...








On June 16, the South China Sea, the United States destroyer DDG 104, USS Sterett-Dwewey and the PLAN frigate Huangshan 570, conducting a series of manoeuvres and drills.
DDG 104 just ended visit the surround of China's Mischief Reef and then Zhanjiang.

...West meets East...

a new pic (I found it at and I'm about to put it on my Facebook) appears to be correctly aligned, based on the exercise from Feb 21, 2017

Jura said:

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this one is interesting:

and now on my Facebook also went:

Jura said:

and now on my Facebook also went:

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What does "Underground Storage Facility" mean? Drinking water, aircraft fuel or diesel fuel, or storage for ammunition, replacement parts, or even supplies for the local supermarket?

delft said:

What does "Underground Storage Facility" mean? Drinking water, aircraft fuel or diesel fuel, or storage for ammunition, replacement parts, or even supplies for the local supermarket?

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LOL delft what I figured was how to put Mischief Reef as 'location' on Facebook:
it didn't work directly, so I first tried 美济礁

(previously it worked with I think Subi this way, I mean putting Chinese name in)

but it didn't work either, so I tried (sorry guys Đá Vành Khăn and ... I got like connected to Mischief Reef

Jura said:

LOL delft what I figured was how to put Mischief Reef as 'location' on Facebook:
it didn't work directly, so I first tried 美济礁

(previously it worked with I think Subi this way, I mean putting Chinese name in)

but it didn't work either, so I tried (sorry guys Đá Vành Khăn and ... I got like connected to Mischief Reef

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And that is why google is banned in China... Not following Chinese laws

now
went on my Facebook because 5 minutes ago

Jura said:

now noticed UPDATED: USS Stethem Conducts Freedom of Navigation Operation Past Triton Island in South China Sea

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went on my Facebook because 5 minutes ago

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U.S. warship entering China's territorial waters "a grave offence": spokesperson

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These three pic of the three islands with their airfields are stunning.

Having worked the last 15 years of my career for the US Bureau of Reclamation, I have to say how impressive what the Chinese have accomplished is.

They took shoals and reefs and turned them into impressive island bases with all of the fixings. And folks, these have clearly been designed to be mutually supportive military installations...and the proof is in the pictures of the finished products.

...and I have no problem with the Chinese improving their possessions however they feel warranted. Other nations are foolish to write off, scoff at, or take lightly what China is doing. And they did this at the same time they are doing a massive and equally impressive military/naval modernization and build up.

In fact, it is clear that the two go together like a hand in glove.



Simply amazing from what originally existed there.