China Places Missiles On DIsputed South China Sea Island

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:

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.

China to the Philippines We Own The Entirety of the South China; Piss-Off

A year ago China issued a map of the South China sea which it call the 9 Dash.  The u-shaped boundary encompasses 90% of the sea and includes territories claimed by 4 other nations.  China has demanded direct negotiations between the two nations the Philippines for its part filed a claim under the International Law of the Sea treaty with the United Nations.

   China on Sunday again rejected an attempt by the Philippines to challenge its vast territorial claims over the South China Sea through international arbitration, a week before a deadline for Beijing to respond to the case.

China prefers to settle its disputes in discussions with the countries directly involved. But the Philippines has filed a case with a tribunal operating under the U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea, which provides a regulatory framework for the use of the world's seas and oceans.

Xu Hong, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Department of Treaty and Law, said the Philippines was "obstinately pushing forward arbitration procedures" and urged it to negotiate with Beijing instead. He told reporters that China was committed to rejecting and not participating in the arbitration proceedings.

The nine-dotted line, U-shape line, or nine-dash map (Chinese: 南海九段线; pinyin: nánhǎi jiǔduàn xiàn; literally: "Nine-segment line of the South China Sea"; Vietnamese: Đường lưỡi bò; literally: "cow's tongue line") refers to the demarcation line used by the governments of both the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) for their island claims of part of the South China Sea. The contested area includes the Paracel Islands, occupied by China but claimed by Vietnam; and the Spratly Islands, disputed by the Philippines, China, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam, who each claim either part or all the islands, which are believed to sit on vast mineral resources, including oil.^[1] The first widely recognized map to show a U-shaped eleven-dotted line was published in the then Republic of China on 1 December 1947.^[2] Two of the dots in the Gulf of Tonkin were later removed at the behest of Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, reducing the total to nine.^[3]
The nine-dotted line claim marked Indonesia's entry into the South China Sea dispute. Prior to the claim, Indonesia acted as a mediator between China and the members of ASEAN. The claim for the first time included Indonesia's exclusive economic zone to the north of Natuna Island as PRC territory. This claim was followed by PRC Navy patrols and a Chinese fisherman fleet presence in the area. In a March 26, 2013 incident, an Indonesian naval patrol was forced by PRC Navy ships to release Chinese fisherman who had been detained violating the Indonesian EEZ.^[4] The incident resulted in the development of an Indonesian military base on Natuna island, which hosts a squadron of Apache AH-64D attack helicopters purchased from the US

What Happens If China Claims Most of South China sea?

Last year China issued a map clarifying  its territory and its exclusive economic zone in reference to a large portion of the South China sea.  The map called 9 dot extends into the exclusive economic zones of Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam.  Looking at the map below the red line is the area claimed by China comes within the territories which would be within the borders of the aforementioned  nations.   The blue lines indicate the exclusive economic zones of the countries China is in dispute with over the area shown.

In the case of the Scarborough Shoal claimed both by China sent naval vessels into the surrounding waters attempting to intimidate the Philippines and its military.   China believes it worked and that they now control the Scarborough Shoal.  Chia feels these same tactics can used in its any territorial disputes with the nations in the South China sea and its dispute with Japan and the Senkaku islands.

     'Asserting control'

"There are growing concerns that this pattern of behaviour in the South China Sea reflects incremental effort by China to assert control over the area... despite objections of its neighbours," Mr Russel told a congressional committee.

"Any Chinese claim to maritime rights not based on claimed land features would be inconsistent with international law," he said.

'Amateurish politician'

On Wednesday, China's state news agency branded Philippine President Benigno Aquino a "disgrace" for comments in connection with the territorial row in which he compared China to Nazi Germany.

Mr Aquino called for world leaders not to appease China over its claims in the South China Sea in the same way nations tried to appease Hitler before World War Two.

"At what point do you say: 'Enough is enough'? Well, the world has to say it. Remember that the Sudetenland [part of what was then called Czechoslovakia] was given in an attempt to appease Hitler to prevent World War Two," Mr Aquino said in an interview with the New York Times on Tuesday.

An angry commentary on the state-run Xinhua news agency branded Mr Aquino an "amateurish politician who was ignorant both of history and reality".

China decides it owns the fish in South China sea

New rule requires foreign fishing vessels to obtain Chinese approval to enter waters in disputed area.

The United States has described as "provocative and potentially dangerous" new Chinese restrictions of foreign fishing vessels in disputed waters in the South China Sea.

From January 1, China has required foreign fishing vessels to obtain approval to enter waters it says are under its jurisdiction. It rejects territorial claims by the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam.

Jen Psaki, a spokeswoman for the US State Department, said on Thursday that China gave no justification under international law for the new restictions.

The new Chinese rules do not outline penalties, but the requirements are similar to a 2004 national law that says boats entering Chinese territory without permission can have their catch and fishing equipment seized and face fines of up to $82,600.

Hua Chunying, a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman, said regulating the use of marine resources was a normal practice.

China has decided in the last 3 months that it owns the air over the East China sea which includes parts of South Korea and Japan.  Now the Chinese government has unilaterally decided that it now controls all the fishing in the South China sea.

What's next?  The place formerly known as Indo-China: Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia will be claimed by China because that's what western nations called that part of Southeast Asia. There's no end insight.    

China denounces Japanese military strategy

Let's see?  China comes in second behind the United States in military spending year on year.  Until the election of Shinzo Abe last December Japan's defense spending had decreased over the last four years.  Even with this increase in spending the Japanese will spend just 5% of their overall budget on defense.
Given China's decision to claim large portions of the East and South China seas thus coming into conflict not only with Japan but, the Philippines, Brunei, Vietnam and Malaysia over territories these nations presently control.  

China's has used its naval and air forces to reinforce its claims along with creating an air defense zone over the Senkaku Islands which are Japanese territory.

Somehow China which is more than twice the size of Japan and with a population of more than a billion people they feel threatened by Japan's 2% increase in defense appropriations.

Defence Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said in a statement that the move would increase regional tensions, state news agency Xinhua reported.

Earlier this week, Japan said it would buy advanced equipment including drones and amphibious vehicles.

It comes as Tokyo is embroiled in a bitter row with Beijing over islands in the East China Sea that both claim.

"China is firmly opposed to Japan's relevant actions," said Mr Geng.

He accused Tokyo of using its national security as a pretext for military expansion.

 Military expansion?  What does this fool think?  That Japan is going to invade China in order to satisfy some weird need to start a war.  How delusional does one have to be before they are considered a joke.