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China has started building structures at the Scarborough Shoal. Soon, these small structures will turn into runways, missile silos, naval dockyard etc. This is exactly how China converted Mischief Reef into a massive military base. Now it's Scarborough Shoal. Wake Up, World!

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China is planning to permanently change the status quo in the South China Sea, while the global focus is shifted elsewhere. A Chinese military base at the Scarborough Shoal, which is already under China's defacto control since 2012, will have global consequences.
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Never forget how China "stole" Mischief Reef from Philippines and converted it into a massive military base! In 1995 China step a " temporary" wooden structure at the Mischief Reef, inside Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone. According to Beijing, the wooden structure was meant to provide shelter to Chinese fishermen. That temporary structure built inside Philippines's EEZ, without Manila's consent was of course illegal. However, Philippines did nothing! Over the years that illegally built wooden structure got bigger and bigger, ultimately being turned into a massive military base. Today, the Chinese military base on the Mischief Reef has a over 3000 meters long runway, missile silos, ship berthing facilities, and shelters that can accommodate hundreds of soldiers! Mischief Reef today threatens not just Philippines's territorial sovereignty but also the entire regional security!
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Never forget how China "stole" Mischief Reef from Philippines and converted it into a massive military base! In 1995 China step a " temporary" wooden structure at the Mischief Reef, inside Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone. According to Beijing, the wooden structure was meant to provide shelter to Chinese fishermen. That temporary structure built inside Philippines's EEZ, without Manila's consent was of course illegal. However, Philippines did nothing! Over the years that illegally built wooden structure got bigger and bigger, ultimately being turned into a massive military base. Today, the Chinese military base on the Mischief Reef has a over 3000 meters long runway, missile silos, ship berthing facilities, and shelters that can accommodate hundreds of soldiers! Mischief Reef today threatens not just Philippines's territorial sovereignty but also the entire regional security!

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🚨 Two Chinese Sailors Died Ramming Manila’s Boat. Beijing Hid It for a Year. On August 11, 2025, in broad daylight and calm seas off Scarborough Shoal, China Coast Guard (CCG) cutter 3104 slammed into the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Type 052D destroyer Guilin (hull 164) at high speed. Both were chasing the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) vessel BRP Suluan, a 44-meter Parola-class patrol vessel on a lawful resupply mission inside Manila’s exclusive economic zone. Philippine video captured the 3104’s bow crumpling ten meters inward. Four CCG sailors visible on that bow moments earlier were gone. Beijing said nothing. CCG spokesman Gan Yu called it “professional, regulated, and legitimate.” Censors scrubbed the footage from Weibo. Filipino radio calls offering medical aid went unanswered. Guilin kept chasing the Suluan before limping away for repairs at Yulin Naval Base. A year later, the cover-up cracked. On August 5, 2026, state broadcaster China National Radio’s (CNR) military channel posthumously named four “martyrs” as “Loyal Guardians of the China Armed Police”. The Ministry of Veterans Affairs martyr database confirms two, Yi Xinyu (born 2003) and Cheng Long (born 2000), were killed on August 11, 2025 during “frontline rights protection operations” in the South China Sea. Beijing’s own paperwork betrayed the story it spent a year burying. This was not seamanship. Since 2018, the CCG has reported through the People’s Armed Police (PAP) to the Central Military Commission (CMC). Two ships coordinating a high-speed block against a civilian resupply run is an ordered operation, not a rogue captain. The world responded. Then-US Ambassador MaryKay Carlson condemned the “reckless action.” Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the European Union raised alarm. Two days later, USS Higgins and USS Cincinnati sailed Scarborough Shoal on a freedom of navigation operation. Beijing killed two of its own to intimidate a neighbor, then hid the bodies until its own paperwork told on it. ACI — Aric Chen | Insights
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🚨 Two Chinese Sailors Died Ramming Manila’s Boat. Beijing Hid It for a Year. On August 11, 2025, in broad daylight and calm seas off Scarborough Shoal, China Coast Guard (CCG) cutter 3104 slammed into the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Type 052D destroyer Guilin (hull 164) at high speed. Both were chasing the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) vessel BRP Suluan, a 44-meter Parola-class patrol vessel on a lawful resupply mission inside Manila’s exclusive economic zone. Philippine video captured the 3104’s bow crumpling ten meters inward. Four CCG sailors visible on that bow moments earlier were gone. Beijing said nothing. CCG spokesman Gan Yu called it “professional, regulated, and legitimate.” Censors scrubbed the footage from Weibo. Filipino radio calls offering medical aid went unanswered. Guilin kept chasing the Suluan before limping away for repairs at Yulin Naval Base. A year later, the cover-up cracked. On August 5, 2026, state broadcaster China National Radio’s (CNR) military channel posthumously named four “martyrs” as “Loyal Guardians of the China Armed Police”. The Ministry of Veterans Affairs martyr database confirms two, Yi Xinyu (born 2003) and Cheng Long (born 2000), were killed on August 11, 2025 during “frontline rights protection operations” in the South China Sea. Beijing’s own paperwork betrayed the story it spent a year burying. This was not seamanship. Since 2018, the CCG has reported through the People’s Armed Police (PAP) to the Central Military Commission (CMC). Two ships coordinating a high-speed block against a civilian resupply run is an ordered operation, not a rogue captain. The world responded. Then-US Ambassador MaryKay Carlson condemned the “reckless action.” Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the European Union raised alarm. Two days later, USS Higgins and USS Cincinnati sailed Scarborough Shoal on a freedom of navigation operation. Beijing killed two of its own to intimidate a neighbor, then hid the bodies until its own paperwork told on it. ACI — Aric Chen | Insights

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