China has already built military length airstrips on these islands.
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Airstrips were sometimes hard to land in because of fog.
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Before that, the Space Shuttle program brought astronauts back to NASA airstrips.
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Please do share your anecdotes of terrible terminals or awful airstrips below.
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Unlike some larger planes, it can land on dirt and grass airstrips.
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Clandestine airstrips etched into the jungle make the area a hub for smugglers.
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In recent weeks they have discussed letting Russian military jets use Egyptian airstrips.
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The Chinese have constructed islands in contested waters, installing military radar and airstrips.
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They found clandestine airstrips for drug planes and abandoned airplanes swallowed by vines.
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Police General Vicente Romero Fernández said the police have also seized 64 covert airstrips.
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Suggestions that the United States spared the airstrips because of collusion are, again, unproven.
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Small aircraft ply an extensive domestic network and often run into trouble at remote airstrips.
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China is turning reefs in contested waters into islands dotted with airstrips and radar towers.
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China has also built military-length airstrips on artificial islands in the South China Sea.
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Over 9,2.53 miles-worth of concrete airstrips and taxiways had been built in wartime Britain alone.
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"They didn't build all these hangers and airstrips so they can never use them," said Poling.
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After the war ended, the cults built airstrips and model planes to lure the "birds" back.
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Initially, the partners used planes to transport their loads to Mr. Guzmán's secret airstrips in Mexico.
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Large-scale land reclamation by China has transformed sandbars into islands equipped with airstrips, ports and missiles.
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Large-scale land reclamation by China has transformed sandbars into islands equipped with airstrips, ports and even missiles.
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In March, it signed a deal allowing U.S. planes and warships to use some Omani airstrips and ports.
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Forty minutes north of Las Vegas, Creech is a constellation of windswept airstrips surrounded by sagebrush and cactus groves.
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During the past few decades, airstrips have been hacked out, so that bush planes can ferry people and goods.
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Airstrips at the northern and southern tips of the archipelago are being lengthened to accommodate the long-range surveillance planes.
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Other countries, including Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan, have also reclaimed land from the South China Sea for airstrips and bases.
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The company said it's working closely with officials to help get people out of affected areas, using airstrips at private oil fields.
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Satellite images have shown at least three military grade and length airstrips, plenty of buildings, as well as deep-water port facilities.
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But it has struggled to make an impact, and China has pushed ahead with construction of airstrips, military buildings and port facilities.
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Black circles show the three artificial islands in the Spratly archipelago where the Chinese have built military-capable airstrips and other assets.
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The planes ran low on fuel after their bombing runs, and none made it to airstrips prepared for them by the Chinese.
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More recently, the Chinese have turned their attention from dredging and reclaiming land to building airstrips, radar and communications facilities and hangars.
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He said telecommunications networks would have to be established and airstrips repaired so that aid workers can provide the necessary medical care.
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Bolivia has more aircraft and airstrips, in part because "air taxis" are used as transport in forested areas, such as the Beni department.
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Getting to the mountain usually means flying into Lukla, Nepal, home of Tenzing-Hillary Airport, one of the scariest airstrips in the world.
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The Chinese have been engaged in a campaign to transform contested reefs and rocks into artificial islands with airstrips and other military structures.
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According to the newspaper, the organization's airstrips are heavily concentrated in Sinaloa, with the greatest number in Baja California opposite the Californian border.
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In Peru, smugglers restore airstrips as soon as police dynamite them, says Héctor Loayza, the general in charge of Dirandro, the anti-narcotics agency.
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China has been building frenetically, turning rocks and reefs in the Spratlys into islands, three of them already bigger than Itu Aba, with airstrips.
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Later I discovered some abandoned airstrips in Europe — abandoned works, Surrealist landscapes, something that had nothing to do with any function, created worlds without tradition.
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The PLA can already land planes at Woody Island, and two additional airstrips are believed to be under construction at Mischief and Fiery Cross reefs.
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"The Vietnamese people are very angry at the Chinese airstrips in the Spratlys," he said, referring to the disputed islands in the South China Sea.
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Known as Tranquilandia, it was a huge complex that contained at least seven laboratories, various airstrips, and more than a billion dollars' worth of cocaine.
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When considering current tensions in the South China Sea, where China has built airstrips, the Battle of Saipan offers important lessons that should not be ignored.
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They fear that America will bluster, then look the other way as China builds airstrips and military bases on disputed reefs in the South China Sea.
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Some of the planes lay damaged, rusting and exposed on the edge of makeshift former airstrips, rendered unusable by large craters created by Honduran military explosives.
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Beijing has spent the past several years building military bases — complete with airstrips, radar arrays, and advanced anti-aircraft weaponry — on a string of artificial islands.
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In recent years, the Chinese government has built a number of artificial islands in the South China Sea with military installations, including radar facilities and airstrips.
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The Rivera brothers, who led a trafficking organization called Los Cachiros, built a fortune as middlemen, moving cocaine from hidden airstrips northward to the Mexican cartels.
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Brownlee on Tuesday honed in on the issue of China's building of artificial islands in the territory, including new airstrips, which has rattled nerves around the region.
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China has also faced criticism over its activities in the disputed South China Sea, where it has been building artificial islands on reefs, some with ports and airstrips.
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China worked overtime to enlarge its presence in the contested South China Sea where once empty waters now boast man-made airstrips, radar facilities, and other military fortifications.
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Seaport facilities, mining operations, oil and gas pipelines — as well as new roads, railways and airstrips to serve them — are arriving in the region at an accelerating pace.
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Not only are they enlarging uninhabited islands and reefs in the South China Sea and building airstrips, they have deployed military aircraft and air defense missile systems as well.
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These locations are just the latest added to the growing list of the FAA's no-fly zones which includes airports and airstrips, army bases, sports stadiums, and national parks.
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In terms of airspace capabilities, China is the only nation to boast airstrips that are 10,000 feet long, which can accommodate cargo planes, surveillance aircraft, fighter jets and bombers.
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That is in addition to airstrips capable of handling large jets like one on Fiery Cross Reef, harbors to berth seagoing vessels, lighthouses and large buildings such as barracks.
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It said China had completed its major reclamation efforts in October, switching focus to infrastructure development, including three 9,800 foot-long (3,000 meter) airstrips that can accommodate advanced fighter jets.
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To reinforce its claims to the territory, the Chinese government has built a series of artificial islands in the Paracel and Spratly Island chains, complete with radar facilities and airstrips.
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The 16 Doolittle planes were supposed to touch down at airstrips in free China after dropping their bombs, because the Hornet's deck was not long enough to handle their landings.
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Tensions have risen in the contested waters after China embarked on a massive land reclamation program in 2014, turning sandbars and reefs into islands equipped with ports, airstrips and lighthouses.
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This move would make it easier for China to continue building up islands, with airstrips and military bases, which would mean a greater Chinese presence in the South China Sea.
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The revelation of new military-related construction could raise tensions in the contested waterway, where China's building of airstrips and other facilities has worried other claimants and the United States.
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China has already built military-length airstrips on three of these artificial islands, previous analysis by the AMTI, part of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), has shown.
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China's navy and air force frequently carry out drills in the South China Sea, where the government has been building man-made islands and constructing airstrips and other facilities, unnerving the region.
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About 59 Tomahawk missiles form launched from U.S. navy warships in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, striking multiple targets including the airstrips, aircraft and fuel stations on the Shayrat Air Base, Reuters reported.
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Missiles, radar in South China Sea In recent years, the Chinese government has built a number of artificial islands in the South China Sea with military installations, including radars facilities and airstrips.
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The panel also faulted China for its aggressive attempts to establish sovereignty by shipping tons of dirt to transform small reefs and rocks into artificial islands with airstrips and other military structures.
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India's government in October outlined plans to boost regional aviation connectivity by forcing airlines to fly to smaller cities and reopening many of the country's 350 disused airstrips as "no-frills" airports.
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But there also appear to be other airstrips and base-like shapes in places where neither the American-led military forces nor the Central Intelligence Agency are known to have personnel stations.
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China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and the Philippines have all reclaimed land in the Spratlys and built airstrips that can accommodate military aircraft but it's China's island-building that has grabbed the most headlines.
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Quake damage shut the region's biggest airfield at Komo, built to supply remote Exxon Mobil Corp facilities, though bush airstrips were accessible and Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) evacuated four people to Mt Hagen.
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Even if China stopped short of formally declaring an Air Defence Identification Zone, known as an ADIZ, Beijing's need to protect its new airstrips and other facilities could see it effectively operating one.
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The man had apparently been operating his business as a front for the cocaine mafias that increasingly invest their money in the mines and also use the miners' clandestine airstrips to ship drugs.
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There were multiple layers of security guards: Some were stationed at the perimeters of the hideouts, some were in the area of the airstrips, and others surrounded the home where he'd be hiding.
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While Mr. Trump has not explained how he will keep China off islands where it has built airstrips and installed weapons, the comments by his appointees suggest the possibility of an American blockade.
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The outposts were built in recent years by piling sand on top of coral reefs followed by the construction of military grade 0003,000-meter (10,000-foot) airstrips, barracks, lighthouses radar stations and other infrastructure.
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There are some restrictions for the leased areas: Only 2,000 acres of the surface (not including roads) can be disturbed by production and support activities, such as airstrips and legs to hold up pipelines.
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In a show of its determination, China said this month that it had, for the first time, landed civilian planes on newly completed airstrips in the Spratly Islands, a possible precursor to military aircraft.
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The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank published satellite images on Friday showing airstrips on two other artificial islands - Mischief and Subi Reefs - close to completion.
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The Chinese government, which claims much of the South China Sea as its sovereign territory, has established a significant military presence in the region, installing radar facilities and airstrips on contested islands and reefs.
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Mr. Martínez, who started as a pilot, soon became a kind of air traffic controller, scheduling and tracking dozens of flights carrying drug shipments from Colombia to a network of Mr. Guzmán's hidden airstrips.
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It is a feature of the trap that defensive behaviour by one party—such as China's building airstrips and the like on reefs in the South China Sea—is seen as aggression by the other.
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The Philippines has traditionally been one of Washington's staunchest supporters in its standoff with Beijing over the South China Sea, a vital trade route where China has built artificial islands, airstrips and other military facilities.
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Unless they make extraordinary efforts — for instance, going out to fly aerobatics, fly sailplanes or wander among the airstrips of backcountry Idaho — they may never develop true airmanship no matter the length of their careers.
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"The impacts are not scattershot across empty fields or airstrips on the southern side of the base," Dara Massicot, policy researcher at RANDCorporation, said, adding that they did not appear to be purely symbolic strikes.
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In a brief report, the People's Liberation Army Daily said the monument was unveiled on Monday on Fiery Cross Reef on the Spratly Islands, where China has built one of its airstrips and other military facilities.
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"I know hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway," Johnson said at the World Economic Forum in 2015.
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Such a plan would mark an expansion of China's military aspirations beyond its controversial activities in Asia, particularly the South China Sea, where it has been building artificial islands on reefs, some with ports and airstrips.
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They say that Beijing is risking a dangerous escalation of regional tensions by expanding barren reefs and outcrops into artificial islands and by installing military outposts, lighthouses, airstrips and other infrastructure on islands under its control.
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China has pulled ahead in the physical race, dredging sand to build one island after another over the objections of its neighbors and the United States, and equipping many of the islands with airstrips and radar.
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Traffickers are cutting down trees to build roads and airstrips to transport cocaine and are encroaching ever further into more remote forest areas to evade anti-narcotics operations, according to two separate studies on the problem.
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A U.S. research institute, meanwhile, said China appeared to have stepped up construction work on artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea and was close to finishing two more military-length airstrips on them.
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In the past two years, China has reclaimed thousands of acres on seven features in the Spratly Islands, an area where Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims, building ports, large airstrips and radar installations.
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Relations have since gradually improved with a series of high level visits between the two, though the military buildup continues in the region, including China's building of airstrips on man-made islands in the South China Sea.
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The C-130 aircraft plays a major role in helping the the US military fly troops, equipment and cargo around the world, something made easier by the plane's ability to use rough, dirt airstrips in hostile environments.
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Itu Aba, also known as Taiping Island, is Taiwan's only holding in the hotly-contested region around the Spratly Islands, where the U.S. and other countries have protested China's construction of military infrastructure, including airstrips and artificial islands.
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China has moved swiftly in recent years to strengthen its presence in the South China Sea, one of the world's major shipping routes, by building artificial islands equipped with airstrips and radar on top of rocks and shoals.
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The film's most exciting sequences put you in the seat of Dick Best (Ed Skrein), a naval pilot known for taking chances, as he risks his life repeatedly, dive-bombing airstrips on carriers to handicap Japan's fighting ability.
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Perhaps more alarming for the military, similar patterns of movement appear to possibly identify stations or airstrips in locations where the United States is not known to have such operations, as well as their supply and logistics routes.
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Obama pressed for a "halt to reclamation, new construction and militarization" of Asia's oceans, an indirect reference to China's rapid construction in the South China Sea of airstrips and ports in the Spratly Islands that could have military uses.
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China's most aggressive and outrageous tactic has been to use tons of dirt and gravel and rocks to transform small reefs and rocks into artificial islands with airstrips and other military structures, including runways capable of handling military aircraft.
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That may mean that the more the Pentagon steps up in the region, the more China may feel it needs to accelerate its military buildup, including the construction of new islands equipped with radar and airstrips in contested waters.
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Shen Dingli, professor and associate dean at the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, said China's behavior in the South China Sea, where it's turned sandbars into islands equipped with military airstrips, was unlikely to change.
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The judgment, more sweeping and categorical than expected, also faulted China for its aggressive attempts to enlarge its domain by shipping in tons of dirt to transform small reefs and rocks into artificial islands with airstrips and military structures.
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Thanks to covert UAE and Egyptian support documented by the U.N., Haftar has gradually built up superiority since 2014, allowing him to stop Tripoli flying in reinforcements during his southern campaign and pressure the NOC by closing airstrips on oilfields.
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It also comes at a time of tensions with China as Beijing asserts its claims over disputed areas in the South China Sea by building infrastructure, including harbors and airstrips on islands in the sea and upping its military presence.
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In recent years, China has built up several reefs and islets into large-scale airstrips and bases as it seeks to assert and enforce its claims to much of the sea, through which some $3 trillion in trade passes annually.
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The civilian version of the aircraft aims to build on that track record, especially on unfinished airstrips where its straight wing and four turboprops have earned it a rugged reputation, said Thomas Wetherall, director of business development for the LM-100J.
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Harris said he believed China's deployment of surface-to-air missiles on Woody Island, new radars on Cuarteron Reef in the Spratlys and its building of airstrips were "actions that are changing, in my opinion, the operational landscape in the South China Sea".
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Much of the South China Sea is subject to territorial disputes between Asian nations, and tensions have increased as China asserts its claims over disputed areas by building infrastructure, including harbors and airstrips on islands in the sea and upping its military presence.
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In addition to strengthening political and economic ties, the U.S. wants ASEAN to show more unity in response to China's growing assertiveness in the South China Sea, as Beijing steps up its building of made islands and airstrips in disputed maritime areas.
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In addition to strengthening political and economic ties, the United States wants ASEAN to show more unity in response to China's growing assertiveness in the South China Sea, as Beijing steps up its building of islands and airstrips in disputed maritime areas.
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In a bid to make its control of the area a fait accompli, China in the past two years has built seven artificial islands in the South China Sea, equipped with airstrips, radars and ports and staffed by thousands of workers and soldiers.
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He then cited events in the distant South China Sea, where the Chinese have indeed militarized a number of tiny uninhabited islands (outfitting them with airstrips, missile batteries, and the like) and the US has responded by sending its warships into adjacent waters.
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Scores of illegal mines had carved out a vast expanse where there was no green—only mud, dirt roads, excavators, mining camps, and a couple of airstrips, from which, presumably, bigger operators were able to fly out their gold without encountering resistance.
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In the late 1980s and 1990s, the D.E.A.'s Operation Snowcap put agents through military training for temporary assignments in which they joined with local forces in places like Peru and Bolivia to target airstrips used for smuggling and to destroy jungle labs.
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"The concerns about the recent activities of China along with the reclamation activities and construction of airstrips in the disputed territory is shared by other countries as it adds to the tension in the region," said Herminio Coloma, Philippine presidential communications secretary.
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In 2014, Beijing started expanding the seven features it occupies in the Spratlys, reclaiming and building artificial islands which are now becoming military bases with airstrips, ports and anti-air and surface-to-surface missiles sites based on satellite and aerial photos.
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Related: China Is Reportedly Training a 'Maritime Militia' to Patrol the Disputed South China Sea The report said China had completed its major reclamation efforts in October, switching focus to infrastructure development, including three 9,800 foot-long airstrips that can accommodate advanced fighter jets.
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To seek favor with communities on whose land they pursue prey, Arab hunters have built roads, schools and mosques in places like Baluchistan and the province of Helmand in neighboring Afghanistan, while residents also benefit from the international-standard airstrips that can spring up.
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Building the concrete structures with retractable roofs on Subi, Mischief and Fiery Cross reefs, part of the Spratly Islands chain where China already has built military-length airstrips, could be considered a military escalation, the U.S. officials said in recent days, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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The pendulum has swung toward less direct intervention and more diplomacy, or, in the case of the Trump administration, conducting only select targeted airstrikes against airstrips and military infrastructure in Syria to illustrate the United States' steadfastness in responding punitively for the regime's use of chemical weapons.
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Control of the region is valuable because more than $5 trillion worth of global trade passes through the South China Sea each year, and China has been accused of ramping up tensions over control in recent years , on which it has added airstrips and other military-style installations.
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South China Sea: What's at stake The trouble began when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suggested during his confirmation hearing that the United States would block China from accessing islands it has built in the South China Sea, islands Beijing has outfitted with weapons systems and military-grade airstrips.
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Other countries, including Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam, have developed airstrips capable of handling military aircraft, according to the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, a project run by the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, which tracks the activities of states in the Asia-Pacific region.
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"Body parts were everywhere and the smell of death permeated the air," Mr. Yellin recalled in a May 19843 interview with the Library of Congress for its Veterans History Project, telling of his first weeks on Iwo Jima after the Marines had seized its airstrips from the Japanese.
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Trump plunges toward the kind of Middle Eastern conflict he pledged to avoid The United States has tens of thousands of military personnel at bases and aboard ships across the Middle East, as well as arrangements with various countries to move soldiers and military equipment through airstrips and ports.
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" Harris said he believed China's deployment of surface-to-air missiles on Woody Island in the South China Sea's Paracel chain, new radars on Cuarteron Reef in the Spratlys and its building of airstrips were "actions that are changing in my opinion the operational landscape in the South China Sea.
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All of this took hard diplomatic work, but the driving force pushing these countries into closer ties with America has been China's growing military capabilities and its brazen efforts to claim most of the South China Sea as its own, transforming reefs and rocks into artificial islands with airstrips and military structures.
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Mr. Pipkin told me enough amazing stories to inform five years of reporting, and arranged for me to be flown in a tiny plane above the Central Valley so I could see Raisin Town from above, as well as citrus and wheat and alfalfa and mansions and airstrips and a traffic jam on Highway 99.
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