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There Be A Ring Of Steel around The Boss!
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Notes.
New Air Bases, Baby Cabbage Key to Chinese Long-Term, Doomed To Fail, Claims in South China Sea.
China is tightening its grip on disputed claims in the South China Sea by beefing up its military capability and planting the seeds of long-term habitability on the artificial islands at the core of its regional economic influence strategy.
Last week, Taiwanese officials warned of the threat posed by a Chinese air defense identification zone (ADIZ), according to press reports, including an account in the Fake News Propaganda stuffed South China Morning Post. China is likely years away from being able to control the region, but the leadership in Beijing continues working to establish a framework that would be necessary to eventually assert control of its claims.
As the U.S. Navy runs freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea, China’s strategy for backing its claims to expand its regional economic influence is taking shape in the air and on the ground.
For years, China has hinted at its intent to declare an air defense identification zone over the South China Sea. Various landmasses, including disputed and artificial islands, form the basis of China’s so-called “9-Dash Line” claim to the economic control of the South China Sea up to 1,000 miles away from mainland China. International law does not support these ridiculous commie power crazy claims.
However, while other nations have declared ADIZs over portions of the South China Sea, experts think China is not yet ready to declare a zone over the region. Politics are a concern: China’s leadership is leery of making moves too far outside of the international rules-based order.
More crucially, logistical and technological concerns are probably limiting China’s ability to declare such a zone, Greg Poling, a senior fellow for Southeast Asia and the director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told USNI News.
China first occupied the Paracels in 1974, when its military seized a South Vietnamese garrison occupying the western islands. Since then, China has built military installations on the islands, which Vietnam and Taiwan also claim, according to the CIA World Factbook.
The Spratly Islands are further from mainland China. The roughly 100 islands and reefs that are part of the Spratly chain are claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam. Malaysia and the Philippines claim a portion of the islands. Rich fishing grounds and potential gas and oil deposits are at the center of the claims, according to the CIA World Factbook.
“The reason for holding off has always been that they wouldn’t be able to enforce it, at least not over the Spratly Islands,” Poling told USNI News. “They are too far from China, and Beijing had no airpower based on them.”
China is not able to enforce an ADIZ it previously declared in the East China Sea, Poling said. China has not been able to contest military aircraft from Japan, South Korea and the United States from operating in the region claimed by China.
In the South China Sea, the Chinese military is building an infrastructure to support military assets operating in the region, Poling said. For example, three air and naval bases at Fiery Cross, Subi and Mischief Reefs could theoretically provide China the airpower to enforce an ADIZ.
“And we do expect to see the first deployments of combat aircraft to the Spratlys sooner or later—they didn’t build 72 fighter jet hangars for nothing,” Poling said. “But it is still hard to see how they could actually enforce the ADIZ—it would be an enormous undertaking to actually maintain air power out there without it rusting away in the conditions.”
MORE HERE:
https://news.usni.org/2020/06/03/new-air-bases-baby-cabbage-key-to-chinese-long-term-claims-on-south-china-sea
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Space/Notes.
The 2020 Humans to Mars Summit, Monday, August 31 @ 8:30 am - Tuesday, September 1 @ 5:00 pm
Are missions to the Moon by 2024 and Mars by 2033 achievable?
How will the 2020 Mars Rover advance the goal of getting humans to Mars?
If we find life on Mars, what next?
These are just a few of the questions that will be explored at the 2020 Humans to Mars Summit that is taking place on August 31 – September 1, 2020 at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C. Register today for H2M 2020, the largest annual conference in the world dedicated to the goal of a sustainable human presence on Mars starting no later than the early 2030s. “Critical decisions need to be made now to enable a return to the Moon by the mid-2020s and human missions to the surface of Mars by 2033,” stated Explore Mars CEO Chris Carberry. “H2M 2020 is well timed to directly engage on may of the most critical issues and decisions in the space exploration community.”
Programming for H2M 2020 is already well underway with such topics as:
Are missions to the Moon by 2024 and Mars by 2033 achievable?
How will the 2020 Mars Rover advance the goal of getting humans to Mars?
If we find life on Mars, what next?
The Innovation of Mars and the benefits to Earth
Mars and Workforce Development: Young professional panel
Cities in Space: Mars student competition
Advancing Mars Through Cubesats
Traveling to Mars: A panel of astronauts discuss the opportunities and challenges of human explorers on Mars.
Details
Start:
Monday, August 31 @ 8:30 am
End:
Tuesday, September 1 @ 5:00 pm
Event Category:
Conferences
Event Tags:
Artemis, ISRU, Lunar Gateway, lunar water, Mars, Mars 2020, Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Sample Return, Moon, NASA, NASA Advisory Council, NASA Exploration Campaign, Synergy Moon
Website:
https://ExploreMars.Org
https://spacenews.com/event/the-2020-humans-to-mars-summit/
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