ASIA
PACIFIC OCEAN
South China Sea
AFRICA
AUSTRALIA
China to build the island's speed and scale has caused concerns related to national interests in the region. In June, China announced the launching of the construction work of the island , the marine sediments deposited on coral reefs, will soon be completed. "This statement represents China's diplomatic tone has changed, indicating that China has completed several planned reclamation, the island is now entering the construction phase," US think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (Center for Strategic and International Studies ) Asia Maritime Organization under the Transparency Initiative ( Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative ), head of Mira Rapp - Hooper (Mira Rapp-Hooper) said that the organization is a research organization in Washington.At present, China has built a number of port facilities, military buildings and an airstrip on the island. These facilities further reinforces China in the Spratly Islands - Foundation (Spratly Islands, China called the Nansha Islands Annotation) on. Spratly Islands in the South China Sea disputed scattered coral reefs and island groups from mainland China's more than 500 miles (about 800 km).
Canton
Hong Kong
Kunming
CHINESE
LUZON
Hanoi
PACIFIC OCEAN
SOUTH CHINA SEA
HAINAN ISLAND
Manila
Vietnam claims to the Spratly Islands and the Paracel Islands (Paracel Islands, China called the Paracel Islands - Annotation) sovereignty.
Myanmar
LAOS
Paracel Islands
PHILIPPINES
The Philippinesclaims sovereignty
China already begun with the "nine-dotted line" label declaration of sovereignty in their own territory, which extends along the coast line in other countries.
VISAYAS
THAILAND
MINDANAO
BORNEO
VIETNAM
Yangon
SULU SEA
CAMBODIA
Spratly Islands
Bangkok
YONGSHU Island
100 MILES
Ho Chi Minh City
Phnom Penh
CELEBES
Brunei claims sovereignty
GULF OF THAILAND
MALAYSIA
AN A SEA
Malaysia claimed sovereignty
BRUNEI
INDONESIA
SULAWESI
Claimed Indonesia
BORNEO
China , the Philippines , Malaysia , Vietnam , or Taiwan, and other countries occupied islands with color-coded to distinguish .. The same color line shows the range of territorial claims.
Source: CIA, NASA, China Maritime Safety Administration
The new office ocean islands make this part of the region can be used in China, while in the previous, some of these areas relatively distant. Rapp - Dr. Hu Po said that despite the large number of fishery resources in the South China Sea, and there may be rich in oil and natural gas reserves, but China's construction projects more to enhance its territorial claims in the region, rather than the convenience of Natural Resources development.The islands area is too small to build large military facilities, but they are sufficient to help China achieve sustained air and sea patrols. American said it has detected Chinese artillery vehicle activities in this area. These islands also allows China to the fishing activities in the region more control.
Dredger
Sediment Flow
Jane's Information Group (IHS Jane's) chief image analyst Sean O'Connor (Sean O'Connor), said China is a "latecomer" in the development of the Spratly Islands, and that "from a strategic perspective, it feel left behind. " However, the construction of the island to China has far exceeded the speed of similar actions in other countries in the region pace, which makes the United States is very disturbing. United States know, about $ 1.2 trillion per year (about 7.45 trillion yuan) in bilateral trade through the South China Sea. By the end of May, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter · B · (Ashton B. Carter) accused China in the waters of the action unfold .
Sediments are broken open, and then from the seabed sucked
Sucked up through a floating pipeline stuff for transport
Dredger pulled things are stacked on the reef
Bolt
Reef
Ocean floor
In order to lay the foundation of the island, a few coral reefs have been completely destroyed. This process may also be to the surrounding destruction of marine ecosystems wider range.University of South Florida professor of biological oceanography · E · Frank Muller - Karger (Frank Muller-Karger), said marine sediments "may be rushed back into the sea by the sea, let the dust mass formation of marine organisms may suffocate, and which may be mixed ships and shore facilities under construction to carry from the heavy metals, oil and other chemicals. "Bruce Pratt coral reefs all over the Canary Islands has a rich biodiversity, and these projects will give them a threat.Muller - Karger said that these reefs may not survive in a large number of sediment in seawater.
Half a mile
Dredger
Reef
What island
THE PHILIPPINES CLAIMS SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE LAND
REED BANK
PREVIOUSLY EXISTING RUNWAY
Subi Reef
Dun Qian sandbar
Gaven Reefs
Mischief Reef
YONGSHU Island
Red Reef
Hughes Reef
SOUTH CHINA SEA
PHILIPPINES
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
SPRATLY ISLANDS
West Reef
HE CLAIMED TO MALAYSIA
Sulu Sea
50 MILES
CHINA CLAIMS SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE LAND
Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan have been expanded in the Spratlys islands, but were not compared with the size of the proposed China.
2011
2015
Island Extension
For China, YONGSHU reef (Fiery Cross Reef) is currently the most strategic importance of the new island. The island has a runway to be built on a scale sufficient to land any type of aircraft China, whether it is aircraft or large transport aircraft.But China is not the first country in the region in the construction of airports, where every other country's territorial sovereignty declaration also has its own airport.
Dredging pipeline
Bulwark
Ten thousand feet long runway
Parking apron
Auxiliary Building
Cement Plant
Construction of the breakwater
Temporary loading dock
Port
Before the recent start of large-scale construction, some small facilities on its reefs China Construction has existed for many years. By keeping the former these buildings alone, China can claim now expanded in the building just before the facilities, construction and other countries in this region is not much difference.
There may be a radar device
Port
Cement Plant
Pier
solar panel
Previously existing buildings
China-made island project to continue on Mischief Reef and Subi Reef, both of which are large-scale projects. It is unclear what they would build facilities on the island, but the two have a large enough line area, can build its own airport.
Half a mile
cloud
Previously existing buildings
Atoll
Unfinished excavation
aisle
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