Browsing Aquatic News Index by Place "Fiery Cross Reef"
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‘Artificial islands to help China project offensive military power’
(The Philippine Star,March 12, 2018 , on page 5)China will be able to project “substantial offensive military power” from artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea’s disputed Spratly Islands within months, the director of US national intelligence said. In ... -
Beijing 'installs missiles' on South China Sea
(The Manila Times,May 4, 2018 , on page A2)Beijing Thursday reasserted its right to build "defense" facilities in the disputed South China Sea, but declined to confirm reports it had installed new missiles on artificial islands it has built in the region. The Chinese ... -
Beijing permanently stations rescue ship in spartlys
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,August 3, 2018 , on page A6)China is stationing a search and rescue ship on its man-made island on Philippine-claimed Zamora Reef in the Spratly archipelago, in a “gray zone tactic” to assert its ownership of the disputed feature in the South China ... -
Benham Rise trip: Duterte's latest comedy act
(The Daily Guardian,May 1, 2018 , on page 5)China builds a monument on Kagitingan Reef that the Philippines claims as part of its territory in South China Sea and President Duterte announces he will sail to Benham Rise, an underwater plateau east of Luzon that has ... -
Benham Rise trip: Duterte’s latest comedy act
(Malaya,April 30, 2018 , on page B4)China builds a monument on Kagitingan Reef that the Philippines claims as part of its territory in South China Sea and President Duterte announces he will sail to Benham Rise, an underwater plateau east of Luzon that has ... -
Carpio: China’s naming of sea features doesn’t mean sovereignty
(The Philippine Star,May 8, 2020 , on page 7)China’s naming of features in the South China Sea, including islands in the Philippine-held Kalayaan Island Group (KIG), does not matter since names of the geologic features do not determine sovereignty, retired Supreme ... -
Cayetano Defends Granting China Research Access to Benham Rise
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,January 14, 2018 , on page A6)Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano has defended the Duterte administration’s move allowing China to conduct marine research in Benham Rise off eastern Luzon, indicating that the grant of permission did not break any ... -
China accosts US plane flying over disputed sea
(Manila Standard,May 22, 2015 , on page A2)A US surveillance plane was warned eight times by the Chinese Navy against flying over the contested West Philippine Sea on Wednesday, CNN Philippines said in an exclusive report. A CNN team led by senior correspondent Jim ... -
China building surveillance facilities on Kagitingan reef
(The Philippine Star,February 18, 2018 , on page 1-13)China has new communications facilities at a military base it built over Kagitingan (Fiery Cross) Reef, indicating its intention to use the fortified feature for its forward signal and surveillance operations in the South ... -
China builds maritime rescue hub; PH unfazed
(Manila Standard,January 31, 2019 , on page A1-A2)China has established a “maritime rescue center” in the West Philippine Sea, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said Wednesday. The rescue center was opened Tuesday in Fiery Cross Reef or Kagitingan Reef, one of the ... -
China Coast Guard entering foreign waters via artificial islands
(The Philippine Star,February 1, 2020 , on page 2)China is now capitalizing on its artificial island military bases in the West Philippine Sea to advance its massive maritime and territorial claims deeper into Indonesian, Malaysian and Brunei waters in the South China ... -
China drives away US spy plane in South China Sea
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,May 22, 2015 , on page 1-9)The Chinese navy warned a US surveillance plane flying over artificial islands that Beijing is creating in the disputed South China Sea to leave the area eight times, according to CNN, which was on board the flight on ... -
China extending reach in sea, says US admiral
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,April 17, 2015 , on page A8)The commander of US forces in the Pacific said Wednesday that major land reclamation by China a-at outpost in the south china sea could allow it to exert more influence over the contested area of deploy military asset such ... -
China has taken P9.7 trillion in reefs, fish - and counting
(The Philippine Star,February 17, 2021 , on page 9)The CCP is stepping up sea aggression. Seven Philippine reefs have been landfilled into Chinese island-garrisons. From there gunboat-backed Chinese poachers overfish Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal and mineral-rich Recto (Reed) ... -
China jams US spy drones over disputed South China Sea
(Manila Bulletin,May 24, 2015 , on page 1-14)China tried to electronically jam US drone flights over the disputed South China Sea in order to prevent surveillance on man-made islands Beijing is constructing as a part of an aggressive land reclamation initiative, US ... -
China keeps building islands on disputed sea – report
(Manila Bulletin,December 16, 2017 , on page 1-4)Tensions over China’s island-building in the South China Sea may have eased in the past year, but Beijing has kept busy. New satellite imagery shows China has built infrastructure covering 72 acres (28 hectares) in the ... -
China lands aircraft on another PH reef
(The Manila Times,May 11, 2018 , on page A1-A2)A Chinese military aircraft has landed on the last of three airstrips it had built at the disputed Spratly Islands, at a reef claimed by the Philippines that is close to an island occupied by Filipino troops. The Asia ... -
'China may be building airstrip on Subi Reef'
(The Philippine Star,April 28, 2015 , on page 10)China appears to be building an airstrip on Zamora (Subi) Reef in the Spratlys archipelago, boosting notions that the Asian superpower is conducting reclamation in disputed areas to display its military might. In a span ... -
China military again lands plane on PH reef
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,May 11, 2018 , on page A1-A12)Malacañang need no more wait to acquire technology to verify and protest China’s violation of the Philippines’ sovereignty in the Spratly archipelago. Satellite imagery has shown the first confirmed landing by China of a ... -
China military planes land on PH reef
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,April 18, 2018 , on page A1-A6)Two Chinese military transport planes have been photographed on Panganiban Reef, marking the first reported presence of this type of aircraft in Philippine territory in the South China Sea and raising the prospect that ...