Pacom Nominee: China Military Islands Now Control South China Sea

[TomSea]

Pacom Nominee: China Military Islands Now Control South China Sea
Bill Gertz
April 20, 2018 5:00 am

China has deployed electronic attack systems and other military facilities on disputed islands in the South China Sea and is now capable of controlling the strategic waterway, according to the admiral slated to be the next Pacific Command chief.

Additionally, the command nominee Adm. Philip Davidson told the Senate Armed Services Committee in a written statement this week that the military urgently needs hypersonic and other advanced weaponry to defeat China's People's Liberation Army in a future conflict.

"In the future, hypersonic and directed energy weapons, resilient space, cyber and network-capabilities, and well-trained soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coastguardsmen will be crucial to our ability to fight and win," the four-star admiral said in written answers to questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Read more at: http://freebeacon.com/national-security/pacom-nominee-china-military-islands-now-control-south-china-sea/

China probably was instrumental in taming North Korea, of course, some might have seen that as a ruse in itself.

[Fishrrman]

Tom Sea wrote:
"China probably was instrumental in taming North Korea, of course, some might have seen that as a ruse in itself."

If China actually has achieved that (bringing the lil Korean fat boy to heel), and if doing so results in the de-nuclearization of North Korea, then acquiescing to their expansion to the control of these islands will be a modest price to pay.

A "price", of course.
But an acceptable one.
Could there have been some secret agreements made between the USA and China over this?

[edpc]

China probably was instrumental in taming North Korea, of course, some might have seen that as a ruse in itself.

Not a ruse, at all.  Cooling down tensions between the US and NK keeps the US Navy presence in the East and South China Sea to a minimum.  That’s exactly what they want.