Foreign Media: China are three reef of the Nansha Islands expansion of terrestrial | expanded land _ over the Nansha Islands News

Reference news network on June 21, said foreign media, according to IHS marine intelligence data with the publishing company and China are three of the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea reef mining activities.

United Kingdom Web site on June 19 in the Jane's defence weekly reported that global positioning system tracking results confirmed the Philippines ' claim, and since at least September 2013, China has five sites landfill reefs to expand land.

Reports that several reefs and shoals of the Nansha Islands under its control, China is conducting a massive expansion of land engineering, mining work is part of the project. Although this building "clearly violate" the South China Sea code of conduct signed by all claims, but rejected all criticism of China, said the reef was China's undisputed territorial, so the Chinese Government can arbitrarily change.

Reports should point out that China is not the only projects in the South China Sea Islands that it controls the country. Since 1975, took from the Philippines southern island since Viet Nam significantly alters the island, New Haven and other features of the past decade. Also announced on zhongye island in the Philippines plan to upgrade airports and terminals.

Reported that the main difference between these activities and the activities, they change the existing land, which are creating new Islands by Reef.

Reported that the strategic implications of China's move to make it the most significant change since 1988, the dispute. If completed, China will first airstrip in the Spratly and take this "imposing" its interpretation of the surrounding sovereignty.

According to the United States the New York Times, June 20, China has been delivered to reef of the Nansha Islands and rocks in the sand, it can accommodate for the construction of buildings, equipment and human habitation of the island. The move not only in the Philippines and Viet Nam arouses anxiety, raises United States of vigilance. Territorial disputes in the Spratly Islands, the Philippines and China, United States considered destabilizing actions in the South China Sea.

Analysts say China is likely to declare, which extends 200 nautical miles of the coastline of the island-wide was the country's exclusive economic zone. Exclusive economic zone is defined by the United Nations Convention on the law of China has signed this Convention.

However, reports that China may be difficult to persuade these new island has an exclusive economic zone of the International Tribunal. Because article 60th said: "the artificial islands, installations and structures with island status. They do not have their own territorial waters, and their presence does not affect the delimitation of the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone or the continental shelf. "Although written very clearly in the terms, but China is likely to say the island is not entirely artificial, because before dredging for marine fill and land reclamation began, there were snags and rocks.

Reports, in fact, Beijing has also been opposed to Japan in the same attempt. Japan and China have territorial disputes, it attempts to use a small coral atoll in a body of water to affirm that the continental shelf and the exclusive economic zone. This atoll is named red bird reef, located in the Philippine Sea. When the rising tide, which has only two small reef protruding. Foreign policy magazine reported that as of 2012, Japan has spent $ 600 million, built a concrete wall around it. Japan fisheries officials have also planted there more coral, to make it look more like an island.

(Edit: SN064)
10:28 on June 22, 2014 Reference news