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China captured only one kilometer away from the most important military foreign in the southern Philippines, and the two rival increased the risk of a new start between the bidders.
Chinese Coast Guard “Fulfilled Savy Control and Sovereign Jurisdiction” This month Sandy Cay, in the State Broadcaster military channel CCTV reported Saturday morning. Shoreeline workers said they did not extinguish the sovereignty on the islands, which sucks the Chinese flag to declare sovereignty on the Wand Islands.
For the first time for the first time, the movement has been planted in the South China Sea almost completely integrity, Beijing, Pekin, previously planted on another other underground ground feature.
Comes as Philippines and its ally Holds a fishThe largest annual military exercise included in their coastal protection and the island seizures exercises. They will be held in the nearest Philippines from Spratlys from the next week.
Although a little less than 200 square meters are measured in a sand bank, Sandy Cay, international law has a strategic value for China because it is a grant to the Territorial Sea. The overlap of the 12-sea-mile radius with the island of Thitu, South China Reef use China to watch Chinese actions in the Philippines.
The official declaration of sovereignty on Beijing Sandy Cay will increase fears that Beijing intends to build unemployed rocks and banks.
In the last two years, Manila has increased coastal patrols and sent scientific teams to investigate report Sandy Cay south of the Chinese reclamation activity and more than three other rifts.
Some maritime experts claim a new Chinese amelioration, because in the last ten years, built by Beijing and the militarized artificial islands gave their military and coastal presence and reaching.
Sandy Cay or have no sign of a constant Chinese occupation of buildings on it. The Philippine Maritime Security Official Saturday said the Chinese coastal ship was leaked after being established.
However, the official declaration of the sovereignty can increase its aggression against us in PAG-ASA, “he added using the Philippine name for Thitu.
Philippine CoastGuard has a monitoring database over Thitu since the end of 2023, but Manila now improves a flight lane and other infrastructure on the island. The building is part of the South China Sea rocks and more and more aggressive efforts to oppose the aggressive Chinese activity.
China’s domestic law gives its coastal boat a Mandate to manage and check “Foreign ships” entering the waters in which Beijing and crews are caught. This raises the risk of clashes with the Military and Coastguard, now the waters are treated as its territorial sea.
China’s military assets are stronger than the outpost. The facilities in the nearby Subi Reef include surface-air missiles, warehouse, a runway, radar and deep water pipeline. However, because it is only classified as a low tidal height, Subi has no territorial sea on international law.