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Is Scarborough Shoal the new-new red line? Chris Harmer, ISW. Charles Burton, Brock U

John Batchelor podcast april 21, 2016

“PRC PREPARING TO MILITARIZE SCARBOROUGH SHOAL

 _PRC Foreign Ministry making statements indicating militarization imminent

“Carrying out justified and necessary defense development on its own territory”

Following a confrontation between PRC Coast Guard and Filipino fishermen

“China has no choice but to strengthen supervision”

PRC Foreign Ministry making the case that this is PRC territory

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told SECSTATE Kerry PRC will militarize

 _Land reclamation could commence at any time

 _PRC moves very quickly from land reclamation to construction to militarization

Fiery Cross, Subi, and Mischief Reef reclamation / militarization happened quickly…”

http://www.understandingwar.org/press-media/staff-bios/christopher-harmer

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“The announcement that there will be joint US-Philippine patrols in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) is the result of China’s plan to build a base in the Scarborough Shoal located only 123 miles from the Philippine island of Luzon.

“US Senator John McCain, chair of the US Senate armed services committee believes that China’s plan to build on Scarborough is meant to secure existing gains in the region and pursue new forms of coercion. In a recent op-ed published in the London based Financial Times, McCain said: “This [plan] could include further reclamation and militarization at strategic locations such as Scarborough Shoal, attempts to expel another country from a disputed territory, or the declaration of an Air Defense Identification Zone in all or part of the South China Sea.”

“There is a report that Secretary of State John Kerry raised the issue of Chinese activities in the Scarborough shoal during a recent meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Washington D.C. According to the report, Wang told Kerry that Chinese expansion in the Scarborough would take place.

“China’s plans for the Scarborough shoals were actually confirmed when a “Chinese website posted a detailed dredging plan for Scarborough including a runway, power systems, residences and harbor capable of supporting Chinese navy warships. I have seen the graphic of the website. The airport and runway are on the northern end of the proposed artificial island. There is also a water treatment plant with three Chinese guided missile frigates at a wharf at the southern opening of the Shoal….”

http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2016/04/17/1573637/war-scarborough-shoal

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http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/04/18/think-chinas-xi-jinping-is-in-trouble-think-again/

http://www.weeklystandard.com/chinas-caesar/article/2001978

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