{"id":2327,"date":"2017-07-02T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T12:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2017-07-02T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T13:00:11","slug":"china-has-built-new-military-facilities-on-disputed-south-china-sea-islands-and-can-deploy-at-any-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/07\/02\/china-has-built-new-military-facilities-on-disputed-south-china-sea-islands-and-can-deploy-at-any-time\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA HAS BUILT NEW MILITARY FACILITIES ON DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLANDS AND CAN DEPLOY \u201cAT ANY TIME\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : Business Insider<\/p>\n

China has built new military facilities on islands in the South China Sea, a U.S. think tank reported on Thursday, a move that could raise tensions with Washington, which has accused Beijing of militarizing the vital waterway.<\/p>\n

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI), part of Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, said new satellite images show missile shelters and radar and communications facilities being built on the Fiery Cross, Mischief and Subi Reefs in the Spratly Islands.<\/p>\n

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Image Sourced : Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative<\/p>\n

Read more at : http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/r-china-builds-new-military-facilities-on-south-china-sea-islands-think-tank-2017-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourced : Business Insider China has built new military facilities on islands in the South China Sea, a U.S. think tank reported on Thursday, a move that could raise tensions with Washington, which has accused Beijing of militarizing the vital waterway. The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI), part of Washington’s Center for Strategic and International… Continue reading CHINA HAS BUILT NEW MILITARY FACILITIES ON DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLANDS AND CAN DEPLOY \u201cAT ANY TIME\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80,1582,1583,224,1584,98],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-china","tag-fiery-cross","tag-mischief-reefs","tag-south-china-sea","tag-subi-reefs","tag-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}