News of the situation in the South China Sea: the Philippines from the Huangyan Island town of the surge

When reporters arrived at the town 10 kilometers outside case of a large number of soldiers is marching training. Wearing a gray camouflage uniform, each wearing a hat has a number. That everyone is equipped with M16 assault rifles and M14 automatic rifles, plus carrying a heavy backpack, an equipment weighing 20 kg. When reporters near the camera, the soldiers unceremoniously looked up and down reporters. "You want to die, sir?" A soldier, suddenly before the situation said the atmosphere of immediate tension, followed by another soldier, said in Mandarin: "Hello!" When the reporter to produce documents, the soldier's attitude Caishao to ease .

The soldiers told reporters, they are in pairs, a small team of 30 consecutive 250 male to female ratio is 8 to 2. And their addition to marching five hours, the mountain camp also has a shooting and military deployment training.

A resident in the town of Masinloc retired infantry, local eight, the nineties have been barracks located in the mountains, about 1,000 soldiers, mainly from the army and police, when some villagers joined the army. The past, every four to six months there will be a squad soldiers to come to training, but since the Huangyan Island, the Philippines, confrontation last month and this month has two groups of soldiers into the camp, is obviously unusual, there have been many new faces.

In addition, in May 8th, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces chief of staff monitoring the Ministry (the equivalent of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) has issued a briefing, said the May 6 as early as 6:00, the Maritime Self Defense Force in Naha fifth aviation group belongs to the P-3C patrol machine found in the waters of Okinawa Island, about 650 kilometers southwest of type 052B destroyer two is southeast Pacific waters, the Chinese Navy type 054 frigate 2, and No. 998 Kunlun Mountains, the dock landing ship, a total of five ships of the formation. This is the Maritime Self Defense Force is the first direct contact with the Chinese Navy Type 052B destroyer and the Kunlun Mountains-class dock landing ship. In addition, 160 km southwest of the island of Okinawa, also confirmed the formation of the Chinese Navy carrier-based helicopter flight activities.