Its navy drills grab most of the attention, but China has also been quietly mounting a range of civilian and scientific operations to consolidate its claims in the South China Sea.
The diversified approach includes setting up a maritime rescue centre in Sansha, a prefecture-level city on Woody Island, which China calls Yongxing. It also involves undisclosed research and oil infrastructure.
“A diversified approach can show China’s sovereignty, and managing related affairs and providing services to others in the region can put China in a stronger position in relation to the claims,” said Zhang Mingliang, a specialist in South China Sea studies at Jinan University in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.
China also set up a tsunami warning centre in Beijing with a network of stations throughout the waters in 2018 to monitor major earthquake zones, and began providing services to nine Southeast Asian countries from November the following year. And in June, a 256-metre floating production storage and offloading vessel was deployed to Liuhua 16-2 oilfield southeast of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, according to China National Offshore Oil Corporation.
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