{"id":1223,"date":"2017-06-17T15:52:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T13:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2017-06-17T15:52:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T13:52:55","slug":"english-china-asked-to-take-responsible-constructive-actions-in-east-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/2017\/06\/17\/english-china-asked-to-take-responsible-constructive-actions-in-east-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"China asked to take responsible, constructive actions in East Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"16\/06\/2017<\/p>\n<p><em>China, as a big country in the region and the world, needs to act responsibly and constructively in the maintenance of peace and stability in the region as well as in the East Sea on the basis of complying with international law, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang has said.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1224\" src=\"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/datei\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170616095824-1-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"226\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\" a-c\"><em>A photo shows China&#8217;s island reclamation in the East Sea (Photo: CSIS)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hang made the statement at the ministry\u2019s regular press conference on June 15 while answering a question about the information that China is in the process of militarising islands in Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagoes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVietnam has sufficient legal foundation and historical evidence affirming its sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos,\u201d she stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Any activities by foreign countries in the areas of Hoang Sa and Truong Sa without Vietnam\u2019s permission is completely illegal and cannot change the fact that Vietnam has sovereignty over these two archipelagos, she added.<\/p>\n<p>In an annual report released earlier this month, the Pentagon said that as of late last year, <a class=\"storyTags\" href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=China\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China <\/a>was building 24 fighter-sized hangars, fixed-weapons positions, barracks, administration buildings, and communication facilities on each of the three largest outposts Fiery Cross, Subi and Mischief Reefs. Each has runways that are at least 8,800 feet (2,680 meters) long.<\/p>\n<p>Once complete, the report said <a class=\"storyTags\" href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=China\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China <\/a>will be able to house up to three regiments of fighters in the Spratly Islands.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"storyTags\" href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=China\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China <\/a>has also built up infrastructure on the four smaller outposts, including land-based guns and communications facilities, the report said.\/.<\/p>\n<p><em>VNA<\/em>\n<p>Aufrufe: 342<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16\/06\/2017 China, as a big country in the region and the world, needs to act responsibly and constructively in the maintenance of peace and stability in the region as well as in the East Sea on the basis of complying with international law, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang has said.\u00a0 A photo shows &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[97,38],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}