China can deploy warplanes on artificial islands: US think tank
Work on Spratly Islands include naval, air, radar and defensive facilities, it says
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 Maritime Transparency Initiative (Amti), part of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the work on Fiery Cross, Subi and Mischief Reefs in the Spratly Islands included naval, air, radar and defensive facilities.
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