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China can deploy warplanes on artificial islands: US think tank
Work on Spratly Islands include naval, air, radar and defensive facilities, it says
Published Tue, Mar 28, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Washington
CHINA appears to have largely completed major construction of military infrastructure on artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea and can now deploy combat planes and other military hardware there at any time, a US think tank said on Monday.
The Asia Mari…
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