SO WHEN CHINA XI SAYS NO MILITARIZATION OF THE SOUTH SEA HIS WORDS HAD NO MEANING SINCE MILITARIZATION OF THE ISLANDS ARE COMPLETE STARTING FROM 2013 OF JOHNSON REEF TO SIX OTHERS INCLUDING SPRATLY ISLAND, CUARTERON REEF, FIERY CROSS REEF, GAVEN REEF, HUGHES REEF, MISCHIEF REEF AND SUBI REEF - ENCIRCLING TAWAIN - AND CONTROLLING THE SEA LANES OF ASIA AS ITS GOAL TO DRIVE ALL THE WAY DOWN TO AUSTRALIA AS IT GROWS ITS BASE NOW IN VANUATU - WITHOUT EVEN FIRING A SHOT - EXCEPT WHEN IT TOOK THE FIERY CROSS FROM VIETNAM - AS CHINA'S XI BECOMES THE NEW THREAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY

China has deployed electronic attack systems and other military facilities on disputed islands in the South China Sea and is now capable of controlling the strategic waterway, according to the admiral slated to be the next Pacific Command chief.

Additionally, the command nominee Adm. Philip Davidson told the Senate Armed Services Committee in a written statement this week that the military urgently needs hypersonic and other advanced weaponry to defeat China's People's Liberation Army in a future conflict.

"In the future, hypersonic and directed energy weapons, resilient space, cyber and network-capabilities, and well-trained soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coastguardsmen will be crucial to our ability to fight and win," the four-star admiral said in written answers to questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee.

On China's militarization and take over of the South China Sea, Davidson said the buildup of forward military bases began in December 2013 at Johnson Reef in the Spratly islands. Since then, the Chinese have fortified that reef and six others with military facilities, Davidson said.

"In the South China Sea, the PLA has constructed a variety of radar, electronic attack, and defense capabilities on the disputed Spratly Islands, to include: Cuarteron Reef, Fiery Cross Reef, Gaven Reef, Hughes Reef, Johnson Reef, Mischief Reef and Subi Reef," Davidson said.

"These facilities significantly expand the real-time domain awareness, [intelligence, surveillance reconnaissance], and jamming capabilities of the PLA over a large portion of the South China Sea, presenting a substantial challenge to U.S. military operations in this region," he added.

The bases on the seven islands include hangars, barracks, underground fuel and water storage facilities, and bunkers for "offense and defensive kinetic and non-kinetic systems," he states.

The militarization contradicts a promise from Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping not to militarize the South China Sea that is used as a waterway transit for an estimated $5.3 trillion in goods annually.

"These actions stand in direct contrast to the assertion that President Xi made in 2015 in the Rose Garden when he commented that Beijing had no intent to militarize the South China Sea," Davidson said.

"Today these forward operating bases appear complete. The only thing lacking are the deployed forces."

The occupied islands will permit China to extend its influence thousands of miles southward and project power deep into the Oceania.

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