Reuters also reported on December 18th that Japan, which has a number of outstanding territorial disputes with China, was upgrading its defenses on its islands in the East China Sea.
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China’s military carried out war games in the disputed South China Sea this week, with warships, submarines and fighter jets simulating cruise missile strikes on ships, the official People’s Liberation Army Daily said yesterday.
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But the US doesn’t recognize China’s claims of territoriality in the areas surrounding its artificial islands – a policy emphasized through a US Navy “freedom of navigation” exercise in the area in November.
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A US official told ABC News that two aircraft had left Guam on an overnight roundtrip mission to the Spratly Islands.
China’s Defense Ministry called the flight and other US military operations in the South China Sea “serious military provocations” that could cause militarization in the region. Two American B-52s also flew close to the islands last month but didn’t go within 12 nautical miles, a boundary marking a country’s territorial waters.
Washington worries that China has built up the islands with the aim of extending its military reach in the South China Sea.
“Only by experiencing a variety of hard situations can one not panic in the midst of war and win”, the paper quoted Li Xiaoyan, deputy chief of staff of the South China Sea fleet and commander of the red team, as saying. It demanded Washington immediately take measures to prevent such incidents and damage to relations between the two nations’ militaries. “There was no intention of flying within 12 nautical miles of any feature”, he said in a statement.
He said the United States routinely conducts B-52 training missions over the South China Sea.
“These missions are created to maintain readiness and demonstrate our commitment to fly, sail, and operate anywhere allowed under worldwide law”, said Urban.
Washington has grown alarmed at the speed at which China’s artificial islands have expanded-from a total of 2,000 acres earlier this year to more than 3,000 acres by September, according to Defense Department documents.
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It is one of seven rocks and reefs in the Spratlys where China has built artificial islands in the past year, as part of what neighbors fear is a program to better enforce its claims and establish control over one of the world’s busiest shipping routes. “U.S. Freedom of Navigation operations are global in scope and executed against a wide range of excessive maritime claims, irrespective of the coastal state advancing the excessive claim”.
