Want China Times
Date: 2015-07-01
By: Staff Reporter

China’s man-made islands and military constructions in the South China Sea would be

An aerial view of Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratlys, which has been transformed into an artificial island by dredging sand to reclaim land. (Photo/Xinhua)

nothing more than a “sitting duck” for US armed forces in the event of a naval conflict, say both American and Chinese experts.

In interviews with the US-based outlet Defense News, Ian Easton, a China defense specialist at the Project 2049 Institute in Washington; Wallace Gregson, a former assistant defense secretary for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, and Zhu Feng, a South China Sea expert at China’s Nanjing University, all agreed that China’s rapidly expanding land reclamation efforts and militarization on disputed islands in the South China Sea “would not survive long in a war with the US.”     [FULL  STORY]