When is the Philippines going to take a pro-active stance on this?
What if those supposedly looking like water tank structures are nuclear plants? Isn't the Philippines supposed to take the initiative in finding out? Or will the Philippies just passively wait till some other nations do the investigation?
Mischief Reef is just one of the three, the other two are the
Fiery Cross and Subi reefs which practically as large as the Mischief reefs.
Do Philippine newspapers even have Military & Defense Section? About time to discard those Entertainment sections and Social Life sections. Filipinos should be made aware of anything that will involve threats to the safety and welfare of Filipinos.
No one knows what these hexagonal structures the Chinese keep building in the South China Sea are for
In addition to China's lightning-fast construction of military aircraft hangars on reefs in the South China Sea, mysterious facilities have also emerged.
Satellite imagery published by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI), a unit of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, shows several unidentified hexagonal structures on Fiery Cross, Subi, and Mischief reefs.
The formations are always oriented toward the sea and started to appear in May, according to experts at AMTI.
"I'm afraid I can't comment just yet," Gregory Poling, director of AMTI, told Business Insider about the hexagonal designs. "But the reason we put them out like this is to collect opinions from other experts in the field."
It has been nearly a month since the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration invalidated Beijing's vast territorial claims in the South China Sea. All the while, Beijing has maintained the ruling has no bearing and continues to build in the region.
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Unidentified hexagonal structures at Fiery Cross, Subi, and Mischief reefs.
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China began working on Subi Reef in July 2014 and has since reclaimed 3,950,000 square meters of land. Currently, Subi Reef remains China's northernmost outpost in the Spratly Island chain.
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Perhaps the most significant portion of the Permanent Court of Arbitration's July 12 500-page unanimous ruling on the South China Sea is the decision on Mischief Reef. According to the ruling, the reef and everything on it legally belongs to the Philippines.
This is in spite of China's reclamation of approximately 5,580,000 square meters of land, and the construction of a 9,800-foot runway, radar nests, and what some experts have speculated is a soon-to-be naval base.
"The court ruled China's initial occupation of Mischief Reef and its construction of facilities there illegal, so every day that China continues to make use of those facilities it is violating international law," Poling told Business Insider in a previous interview.
What if those supposedly looking like water tank structures are nuclear plants? Isn't the Philippines supposed to take the initiative in finding out? Or will the Philippies just passively wait till some other nations do the investigation?
Mischief Reef is just one of the three, the other two are the
Fiery Cross and Subi reefs which practically as large as the Mischief reefs.
Do Philippine newspapers even have Military & Defense Section? About time to discard those Entertainment sections and Social Life sections. Filipinos should be made aware of anything that will involve threats to the safety and welfare of Filipinos.
No one knows what these hexagonal structures the Chinese keep building in the South China Sea are for
In addition to China's lightning-fast construction of military aircraft hangars on reefs in the South China Sea, mysterious facilities have also emerged.
Satellite imagery published by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI), a unit of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, shows several unidentified hexagonal structures on Fiery Cross, Subi, and Mischief reefs.
The formations are always oriented toward the sea and started to appear in May, according to experts at AMTI.
"I'm afraid I can't comment just yet," Gregory Poling, director of AMTI, told Business Insider about the hexagonal designs. "But the reason we put them out like this is to collect opinions from other experts in the field."
It has been nearly a month since the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration invalidated Beijing's vast territorial claims in the South China Sea. All the while, Beijing has maintained the ruling has no bearing and continues to build in the region.
Unidentified hexagonal structures at Fiery Cross, Subi, and Mischief reefs.
China began working on Subi Reef in July 2014 and has since reclaimed 3,950,000 square meters of land. Currently, Subi Reef remains China's northernmost outpost in the Spratly Island chain.
Perhaps the most significant portion of the Permanent Court of Arbitration's July 12 500-page unanimous ruling on the South China Sea is the decision on Mischief Reef. According to the ruling, the reef and everything on it legally belongs to the Philippines.
This is in spite of China's reclamation of approximately 5,580,000 square meters of land, and the construction of a 9,800-foot runway, radar nests, and what some experts have speculated is a soon-to-be naval base.
"The court ruled China's initial occupation of Mischief Reef and its construction of facilities there illegal, so every day that China continues to make use of those facilities it is violating international law," Poling told Business Insider in a previous interview.