{"id":3499,"date":"2018-05-12T22:58:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T22:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2018-05-12T22:58:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T22:58:53","slug":"an-accounting-of-chinas-deployments-to-the-spratly-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/12\/an-accounting-of-chinas-deployments-to-the-spratly-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"AN ACCOUNTING OF CHINA\u2019S DEPLOYMENTS TO THE SPRATLY ISLANDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Slide15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3500\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Slide15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"954\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Slide15.jpg 954w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Slide15-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Slide15-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Slide15-560x382.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Slide15-260x177.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/Slide15-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 954px) 100vw, 954px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: CSIS<\/p>\n<p>Satellite imagery from April 28 reveals the first image of a military aircraft, a Shaanxi Y-8, deployed to China\u2019s base at Subi Reef in the Spratly Islands. This follows Chinese media reports from March 2018 that a Y-8 had landed on the reef to evacuate a fisherman who required medical assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The Y-8 was designed as a military transport aircraft, but some variants are used for maritime patrol or signals intelligence. This should be particularly concerning to the Philippines, which has about 100 civilians and a small military garrison on Thitu Island just 12 nautical miles away.<\/p>\n<p>With these deployments, military aircraft have now verifiably landed on all three of China\u2019s airstrips in the Spratly Islands. The first was a \u201cnaval patrol aircraft,\u201d possibly a Y-8 or similar plane, which landed at Fiery Cross Reef in April 2016 to evacuate three personnel who had fallen ill.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Philippine Daily Inquirer published an aerial photo dated January 6 showing two Xian Y-7 military transport aircraft on Mischief Reef. That landing was especially galling for the Philippines because an arbitral tribunal in 2016 ruled that Mischief Reef is a piece of the Philippine continental shelf.<\/p>\n<p>Image sourced: The Philippine Daily Inquirer<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/amti.csis.org\/accounting-chinas-deployments-spratly-islands\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: CSIS Satellite imagery from April 28 reveals the first image of a military aircraft, a Shaanxi Y-8, deployed to China\u2019s base at Subi Reef in the Spratly Islands. This follows Chinese media reports from March 2018 that a Y-8 had landed on the reef to evacuate a fisherman who required medical assistance. The Y-8&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/12\/an-accounting-of-chinas-deployments-to-the-spratly-islands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AN ACCOUNTING OF CHINA\u2019S DEPLOYMENTS TO THE SPRATLY ISLANDS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1856],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-spratly-islands","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499","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=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}