As the US and China plunge into a trade war, Beijing is apparently preparing for a different type of warfare that some fear may be on the horizon.
Following news earlier this year that China installed military jamming equipment on contested islands in the South China Sea, CNBC reported on Thursday they have begun testing it out.
China is “quietly testing” the electronic warfare assets, the report said, citing sources who have seen US intelligence reports. According to the assessments, this is the first known use of the equipment.
In April, The Wall Street Journal quoted a US Defense Department official as saying that “China has deployed military jamming equipment to its Spratley Island Outposts,” as part of what the US describes as an aggressive military buildup in the disputed territory.
In addition to the electronic equipment, surface-to-air and anti-ship cruise missiles have also been deployed on three outposts in the South China Sea.
China’s claims of sovereignty over all of the islands located in the South China Sea overlap with competing claims from other nations in the region, including Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
“China has built a massive infrastructure specifically—and solely—to support advanced military capabilities that can deploy to the bases on short notice,” Admiral Harry Harris, then-commander of the US Pacific Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in March.
Beijing contends that its buildup is defensive in nature and has accused Washington of destabilizing the region with naval exercises, including so-called freedom of navigation operations.
Scary. China may actually try to defend itself from having its shipping blocked by the US in the South China Sea (China’s Gulf of Mexico).
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The days of sailing missile destroyers and cruisers right on China’s coastlines to threaten and provoke China are over. Just like Guam. Hawaii. Johnstone atoll (now abandoned). etc. China has established defence zones where hostile gunboats cannot operate with impunity.
More evidence that US markets are manipulated !
The only hostile power is China itself
Go take your medicine, your grammar makes no sense, you’ll never earn 5 cents
白恆禮 Xi will pay Lawarance for writing in crappy English 🙂 Lawarance cannot even spell his own name correctly. I don’t blame him as his real name was probably Wen Jintao Ping 🙂
ELECTRONIC WARFARE GUYS WAS ALREADY USED BY THE UNITED STATES 60 -70 YEARS AGO. AMERICA USED THAT ALREADY IN INTILLEGENCE GATHERING AND OTHER UNITED STATES MILITARY ACTIVITY.THAT IS NO LONGER NEW TO THE AMERICAN ARMED FORCES.NOW CHINA ONLY USE TODAY THAT KIND OF TECHNOLOGY? VERY FUNNY
USA is 10,000 miles away on the other side of the Pacific. USA is not an Asian nation, and American is an alien to Asian, American became rich and powerful through imperialism, colonialism, selling opium, religious indoctrination of the conquered, ethnic cleansing, genocide, slavery, racial discrimination, regime change, weapons trade, shock and awe, skillful propaganda, etc.
American is a toxin and a plague to Asian, They have done enough damage to Asian already, they are not wanted, not invited and not loved in Asia, go home Yankee.
白恆禮, USA is 10,000 miles away on the other side of the Pacific. USA is not an Asian nation, and American is an alien to Asian, American became rich and powerful through imperialism, colonialism, selling opium, religious indoctrination of the conquered, ethnic cleansing, genocide, slavery, racial discrimination, regime change, weapons trade, shock and awe, skillful propaganda, etc.
American is a toxin and a plague to Asian, They have done enough damage to Asian already, they are not wanted, not invited and not loved in Asia, go home Yankee.
白恆禮, Not just the American but all Gweilo are toxin and plague to Asian, they have done enough damage to Asian already, they are not wanted, not invited and not loved in Asia, go home Gweilo.
白恆禮
Why pretend to be a Taiwanese, racist troll?
It’s not warfare assets. It’s defense assets since China is installing them in her territory against provocation and encroachment lead from behind by us regime and its lackeys.
What makes it so ridiculous is the fact that us regime doesn’t even any claims in South China sea and yet it still irresponsibly provokes China making usa seen as the laughing stock of the whole planet.
Ken Nguyen
And why pretends to be a Vietnamese troll?
Nguyen? Hello!?
I wonder why US warship keep crashing into civilian ship? ????
US naval blockade to starve those chinese in the island
EL Charn I think your not familiar with sea traffic control which the U. S officials have been reprimand die also of there stupidty mishandling the ship at that moment colliding by a commercialized vessel