Beijing: China is trying to seize an island in the South China in the face of US naval presence is strong.
China’s Navy has announced that he lit the sea area to the west of the peninsula Leizhou to “live fire drill” on Thursday and Friday.
It follows other moves, the Navy command South Theater of China has made in the early hours Wednesday – an amphibious landing exercise in the South China Sea.
It uses Wuzhishan, Type 071 amphibious transport dock, two helicopters, at least one tank and three landing craft air udaran for the purpose.
State broadcaster CCTV showed troops had been sent to the island are not specified by kind, helicopters and transport dock.
China had earlier claimed that the USS Benfold from the US Navy has been “trespassing into areas adjacent to the Meiji Reef” in the sea area to “warned” by the Chinese Navy and the Aerial.
“Naval and air forces of order Southern Theater The Pla tracking and monitoring the entire process of the US destroyer and warned him,” he said in a written statement.
7th Fleet US Navy has described this statement as “wrong”.
“USS Benfold do this fonop in accordance with international law and then proceeded to carry out normal operations in international waters,” he said.
Beijing purpose is to utilize image suffered losses in Afghanistan to undermine the Washington connection with seven different countries bordering the sea, according to observers.
These countries include Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam.
Beijing claims almost 1.3 million miles south of the South China as Sovereign territory.
It has ignored the claims made by other countries in Southeast Asia, which is trying to maintain relations with the US and China, which is their largest trading partner.
Tensions have risen in sea area since last Sunday, when China announced a new maritime rules to be followed by foreign vessels which entered the “Chinese waters”.
They are required to report details of their cargoes if they carry radioactive material, bulk oils, chemicals and a number of other supplies.
State Run Global Times quoted a military expert, Fu Qianshao, saying that the US Navy’s USS Benfold can be coordinated with the British carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, which is operating near Japan.
According to the monitoring by the South China Strategic Situation Situation Probing (SCSPI), a Beijing-based think tank, a US Navy aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson entered the South China Sea through the Bashi Channel on Monday.
US Pacific Fleet confirm the presence of the carrier in that area in a tweet on Tuesday.