Genesis
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The Philippines needs to seriously develop the islands that they have. I hope the AFP invites the JSDF to help develop their assets.
To land the fighters they don't have? To dock the war ships that can't leave their ports? Japan is welcome to do anything it wants, in the end all China has to do is to top it, and looking at our current situation, that's not a tall order at all. 100+ billion in the Asian development funds, I'm sure we can spare some to compete.
Besides, developing islands is not particularly hard, the Philippines can do it, if they had the use for it, the political will, the money. The know how and technology is the least they need. This is essentially grunt work.
I am underwhelmed by this, how can we not have the top 10 islands in this chart, very underwhelmed. That Malaysian and Taiwan island are big enough to land fighters.Let me to show some awesome here, 2015.5 South China Sea islands/reefs controlled by China/ Vietnam/ Philippines /Malaysia.
In 2015 SCS, N.o1 & N.o2 & N.o3 biggest-size islands belong to China artificial islands.
( 4456 x 2718 pic, click to see satellite photos ... PSed & translated by cnleio )
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