China sends surface-to-air missiles to contested island

[doppelganger]

The Chinese military has deployed an advanced surface-to-air missile system to one of its contested islands in the South China Sea according to civilian satellite imagery exclusively obtained by Fox News, more evidence that China is increasingly "militarizing" its islands in the South China Sea and ramping up tensions in the region.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/02/16/exclusive-china-sends-suface-to-air-missiles-to-contested-island-in-provocative-move.html

[TimH]

I doubt they are concerned with how we (US) feel about that. There's an untrusted threesome out there running amok.

[W-O]

Why don't we go over there and start piling up sand to build our own island?

[Luck_of_the_Draw]

Why don't we go over there and start piling up sand to build our own island?

Why?

There's a perfectly good pile in international waters now.

I hear they have good Chinese food.

[XBowHunter]

Why don't we go over there and start piling up sand to build our own island?

why, to provoke and start another war?

exactly what americans DO NOT want...

we are not the police of the world.

if the world has a problem we can join them to solve it, but we need to stop playing mommy and daddy to the world.