In Novmber of 2014 China issued its Dash 9 map which claimed 90% of the South China Sea.
Since then the Chinese government has created several artificial islands in an effort to further bolster its claims over the disputed waters. In April of 2015 China moved an oil drilling rig into an area near the Paracel Islands causing violent widespread anti Chinese demonstartions in Vietnam. Now its been revealed that the Chinese military has placed surface to air missiles on of the artificial islands causing governments in the region to seek further military corporation with the U.S.
From the Guardian:
China is also in a territorial dispute with Japan over the Senkaku Islands in the East China sea which have been a part of Japan since 1898.
The goverment in Beijing keeps insisting that its intentions are peaceful yet its actions would say otherwise considering the now placed missiles and the constant intrutisions by armed Chinese navel vessiles into Japanese territorial waters.
Since then the Chinese government has created several artificial islands in an effort to further bolster its claims over the disputed waters. In April of 2015 China moved an oil drilling rig into an area near the Paracel Islands causing violent widespread anti Chinese demonstartions in Vietnam. Now its been revealed that the Chinese military has placed surface to air missiles on of the artificial islands causing governments in the region to seek further military corporation with the U.S.
From the Guardian:
Tensions in the South China Sea, a vital shipping route, could rise after two batteries of eight missile launchers and a radar system were deployed to Woody Island in the past week according to images taken by the private company ImageSat International.
The images were first published by Fox News. Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, did not deny that missile launchers had been installed but said the reports were an attempt by “certain western media to create news stories”.
“As for the limited and necessary self defence facilities China has built on islands and reefs stationed by Chinese personnel, that is consistent with the self defence and self preservation China is entitled to under international law,” he said.
China is also in a territorial dispute with Japan over the Senkaku Islands in the East China sea which have been a part of Japan since 1898.
The goverment in Beijing keeps insisting that its intentions are peaceful yet its actions would say otherwise considering the now placed missiles and the constant intrutisions by armed Chinese navel vessiles into Japanese territorial waters.
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