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Wow the thief is calling us the rightful owners thieves? cant wait for the ITCOLS rulling to shut you chincoms up for good
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Cambodia objects attempts to use ASEAN to settle territorial disputes: official
May 07,2015
PHNOM PENH, May 7 (Xinhua) -- A Cambodian government official on Thursday reiterated the country's position on the South China Sea disputes, saying that the territorial disputes must be resolved bilaterally between China and claimant states, not between ASEAN and China.
"We do not support any attempt by some ASEAN countries to use the ASEAN to settle the territorial disputes because ASEAN is not a legal or judicial body," Soeung Rathchavy, Foreign Affairs Ministry Secretary of State in charge of ASEAN Affairs, told reporters after she briefed to ambassadors and representatives of more than 20 countries to Cambodia about the outcome of the recent 26th ASEAN Summit in Malaysia.
"Cambodia's position on the South China Sea is still the same: The territorial claims must be settled by bilateral parties or all parties related in the disputes," she said.
The official said all involved countries should continue negotiations peacefully based on international laws, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
She also urged all parties related in the disputes to fully implement the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) towards the compilation of the Code of Conduct ( COC).
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
May 07,2015
PHNOM PENH, May 7 (Xinhua) -- A Cambodian government official on Thursday reiterated the country's position on the South China Sea disputes, saying that the territorial disputes must be resolved bilaterally between China and claimant states, not between ASEAN and China.
"We do not support any attempt by some ASEAN countries to use the ASEAN to settle the territorial disputes because ASEAN is not a legal or judicial body," Soeung Rathchavy, Foreign Affairs Ministry Secretary of State in charge of ASEAN Affairs, told reporters after she briefed to ambassadors and representatives of more than 20 countries to Cambodia about the outcome of the recent 26th ASEAN Summit in Malaysia.
"Cambodia's position on the South China Sea is still the same: The territorial claims must be settled by bilateral parties or all parties related in the disputes," she said.
The official said all involved countries should continue negotiations peacefully based on international laws, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
She also urged all parties related in the disputes to fully implement the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) towards the compilation of the Code of Conduct ( COC).
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Japan and the Philippines will hold their first joint naval drill this month in the South China Sea near a disputed shoal claimed by Beijing, sources in Tokyo and the Philippines said.
The May 12 maritime safety exercise, which will practice the code for unplanned encounters at sea, known as CUES, is part of an agreement signed by Japan and the Philippines in January aimed at tightening security cooperation.
The nature of the training is unlikely to worry China unduly, as it has conducted similar exercises with the United States in the past.
But the presence of Japanese naval vessels in the South China Sea signals Japan's growing interest in the region, and may irritate Beijing as criticism of its land reclamation projects there mounts.
"The exercise will not be far from Scarborough Shoal," one of the sources in Japan said, referring to a rocky outcrop which China seized in 2012 after a three-month standoff with the Philippines.
The two-hour practice within Philippines territorial waters near Subic Bay, a former U.S. navy base, will involve a Japanese warship and a Philippines navy frigate, a spokesman at the Philippines Navy said.
A spokesman for Japan's Maritime Self Defense Force declined to comment.
Japan, Philippines to hold first naval drill in South China Sea: sources | TODAYonline
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Japan wishes to challenge China in SCS? 
The platform in which we are operating is through the Japan-Philippines Security Partnership that was heralded in 2011 and formalized in 2012.
President Aquino will give Japan access to the Subic Naval Base, a former US military facility facing the South China Sea.
Japan, too, gains from increased cooperation. The Philippines will play a role in Japan’s nascent defence strategy of deploying Japanese marine troops and surveillance drones to protect its remote islands in the East China Sea. Also, a better relationship with the Philippines fits in with Japan’s foreign policy strategy of re-engaging ASEAN.
Japan’s and the Philippines’ strategic and economic interests are converging. Their relationship is no longer defined by the bitter memories of brutal Japanese occupation. Instead, their priorities are to ensure economic growth, shared property, and regional stability.
President Aquino will give Japan access to the Subic Naval Base, a former US military facility facing the South China Sea.
Japan, too, gains from increased cooperation. The Philippines will play a role in Japan’s nascent defence strategy of deploying Japanese marine troops and surveillance drones to protect its remote islands in the East China Sea. Also, a better relationship with the Philippines fits in with Japan’s foreign policy strategy of re-engaging ASEAN.
Japan’s and the Philippines’ strategic and economic interests are converging. Their relationship is no longer defined by the bitter memories of brutal Japanese occupation. Instead, their priorities are to ensure economic growth, shared property, and regional stability.
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Now I am expecting keyboard comedians to post about dropping something over Manila or Tokyo and say "China stronk!" 
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Share some pictures okay ?
I maybe i dont have
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Images show Vietnam's South China Sea reclamation, China defends own
By: David Brunnstrom and Ben Blanchard, Reuters
May 8, 2015 11:51 PM
Vietnamese-controlled West London Reef is pictured in the South China Sea in 2015, in this handout photo provided by CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative/DigitalGlobe. REUTERS
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WASHINGTON/BEIJING - Newly released images show Vietnam has carried out significant land reclamation at two sites in the disputed South China Sea, though the scale and pace is dwarfed by that of China, a US research institute said.
In response, China condemned Vietnam's actions, and said its work in the region was part of an obligation to the international community to improve navigation safety and contribute to science and research, including building observation platforms to monitor sea levels.
The photographs, shared with Reuters by Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), show an expansion of the land area of Vietnamese-controlled Sand Cay and West London Reef in the Spratly archipelago and the addition of buildings.
Mira Rapp-Hooper, director of CSIS's Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (amti.csis.org/), said the work included military installations and appeared to have started before China began a flurry of reclamation projects last year.
The photographs, taken by satellite imagery firm DigitalGlobe, were taken between 2010 and April 30 this year.
"On one site, it has constructed a significant new area that was formerly under water and at another it has used land reclamation to add acreage to an existing island," Rapp-Hooper said.
Vietnam's government did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but routinely says it has sufficient legal and historical evidence to support its claims in the Spratlys.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that Vietnam, the Philippines and other countries had been carrying out such reclamations for a long time on what she said were Chinese islands being illegally occupied.
"We demand that the relevant countries stop all their activities which infringe upon China's sovereignty and rights," she told a daily news briefing.
International obligations
Hua added that China's building work was partly to better fulfill its international obligations, including as part of a deal agreed at a UNESCO meeting in Paris in 1987.
There, she said, China was entrusted to build five out of 200 sea level observation platforms, including on the Spratlys.
"The scale of China's construction should be commensurate with its responsibilities and obligations as a major country," Hua added.
The speed of recent Chinese reclamation work has alarmed its neighbors and the United States, which sees it as a potential threat to the status quo in a region through which $5 trillion of sea-borne trade passes each year.
China claims 90 percent of the potentially energy-rich South China Sea, with overlapping claims from Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan.
New Vietnamese military facilities at Sand Cay appeared to include defensive positions and gun emplacements, and new buildings visible on West London Reef could also have military applications, Rapp-Hooper said.
"Strictly speaking, these photos show that China is right," Rapp-Hooper said, "but we can safely say that the scope and scale of what China has undertaken is totally unprecedented and dwarfs Vietnam's activities many times over."
She said the images showed that Vietnam had reclaimed about 65,000 square meters (699,654 square feet) of land at West London Reef and 21,000 square meters (226,042 square feet) at Sand Cay. This compared to 900,000 square meters (9.6 million square feet) reclaimed by China at a single reef, Fiery Cross.
Rapp-Hooper said satellite images showed that since about March 2014, China had conducted reclamation work at seven sites in the Spratlys and was constructing a military-sized air strip on one artificial island and possibly a second on another.
She said Vietnam already had an airstrip on the Spratlys.
The US State Department and Pentagon had no immediate comment on the latest images.
US President Barack Obama last month accused China of "flexing its muscles" to advance its maritime claims.
The Philippines has been the most vocal critic in Asia of China's reclamation work, but was unlikely to be troubled by Vietnam's activities partly because of growing security ties between Manila and Hanoi, experts said.
"For the Philippines, Vietnam's reclamation activities are not threatening because they are only small scale compared to China, which is very large scale," said Rommel Banlaoi, a Philippine security expert. (Additional reporting by Manuel Mogato in Manila and Martin Petty in Hanoi)
By: David Brunnstrom and Ben Blanchard, Reuters
May 8, 2015 11:51 PM
Vietnamese-controlled West London Reef is pictured in the South China Sea in 2015, in this handout photo provided by CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative/DigitalGlobe. REUTERS
InterAksyon -The online news portal of TV5
WASHINGTON/BEIJING - Newly released images show Vietnam has carried out significant land reclamation at two sites in the disputed South China Sea, though the scale and pace is dwarfed by that of China, a US research institute said.
In response, China condemned Vietnam's actions, and said its work in the region was part of an obligation to the international community to improve navigation safety and contribute to science and research, including building observation platforms to monitor sea levels.
The photographs, shared with Reuters by Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), show an expansion of the land area of Vietnamese-controlled Sand Cay and West London Reef in the Spratly archipelago and the addition of buildings.
Mira Rapp-Hooper, director of CSIS's Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (amti.csis.org/), said the work included military installations and appeared to have started before China began a flurry of reclamation projects last year.
The photographs, taken by satellite imagery firm DigitalGlobe, were taken between 2010 and April 30 this year.
"On one site, it has constructed a significant new area that was formerly under water and at another it has used land reclamation to add acreage to an existing island," Rapp-Hooper said.
Vietnam's government did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but routinely says it has sufficient legal and historical evidence to support its claims in the Spratlys.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that Vietnam, the Philippines and other countries had been carrying out such reclamations for a long time on what she said were Chinese islands being illegally occupied.
"We demand that the relevant countries stop all their activities which infringe upon China's sovereignty and rights," she told a daily news briefing.
International obligations
Hua added that China's building work was partly to better fulfill its international obligations, including as part of a deal agreed at a UNESCO meeting in Paris in 1987.
There, she said, China was entrusted to build five out of 200 sea level observation platforms, including on the Spratlys.
"The scale of China's construction should be commensurate with its responsibilities and obligations as a major country," Hua added.
The speed of recent Chinese reclamation work has alarmed its neighbors and the United States, which sees it as a potential threat to the status quo in a region through which $5 trillion of sea-borne trade passes each year.
China claims 90 percent of the potentially energy-rich South China Sea, with overlapping claims from Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan.
New Vietnamese military facilities at Sand Cay appeared to include defensive positions and gun emplacements, and new buildings visible on West London Reef could also have military applications, Rapp-Hooper said.
"Strictly speaking, these photos show that China is right," Rapp-Hooper said, "but we can safely say that the scope and scale of what China has undertaken is totally unprecedented and dwarfs Vietnam's activities many times over."
She said the images showed that Vietnam had reclaimed about 65,000 square meters (699,654 square feet) of land at West London Reef and 21,000 square meters (226,042 square feet) at Sand Cay. This compared to 900,000 square meters (9.6 million square feet) reclaimed by China at a single reef, Fiery Cross.
Rapp-Hooper said satellite images showed that since about March 2014, China had conducted reclamation work at seven sites in the Spratlys and was constructing a military-sized air strip on one artificial island and possibly a second on another.
She said Vietnam already had an airstrip on the Spratlys.
The US State Department and Pentagon had no immediate comment on the latest images.
US President Barack Obama last month accused China of "flexing its muscles" to advance its maritime claims.
The Philippines has been the most vocal critic in Asia of China's reclamation work, but was unlikely to be troubled by Vietnam's activities partly because of growing security ties between Manila and Hanoi, experts said.
"For the Philippines, Vietnam's reclamation activities are not threatening because they are only small scale compared to China, which is very large scale," said Rommel Banlaoi, a Philippine security expert. (Additional reporting by Manuel Mogato in Manila and Martin Petty in Hanoi)
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CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT OF THE 26TH ASEAN SUMMIT
CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT OF THE 26TH ASEAN SUMMIT KUALA LUMPUR & LANGKAWI, 27 APRIL 2015 “OUR PEOPLE, OUR COMMUNITY, OUR VISION”
CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT OF THE 26TH ASEAN SUMMIT KUALA LUMPUR & LANGKAWI, 27 APRIL 2015 “OUR PEOPLE, OUR COMMUNITY, OUR VISION”
Update
The JMSDF's two warships, the JS Harusame and the JS Amagiri have arrived in Manila Harbor , both will take active role in the naval exercises with the Philippine Navy on the 12th of May. All in all, 700 sailors of the JMSDF will be taking part with the Filipino counterparts.
JS Harusame, a Murasame Class Destroyer:
JS Amagiri, an Asagiri Class Destroyer:
The JMSDF's two warships, the JS Harusame and the JS Amagiri have arrived in Manila Harbor , both will take active role in the naval exercises with the Philippine Navy on the 12th of May. All in all, 700 sailors of the JMSDF will be taking part with the Filipino counterparts.
JS Harusame, a Murasame Class Destroyer:
JS Amagiri, an Asagiri Class Destroyer:
How is it crossing the line? We are just having naval exercise in the Philippines' territory.
