China says military development of islands within its rights

 As we have seen during the curse, there is a major competence over the sovereignty of the South China Sea, where China has built some islands that are now being filled with military equipment and infrastructure. 

China, as considers these islands parts of the country, they justify its actions as their right within their sovereignty over the islands. 

Of course, all of this has put into alert the neighboring countries as well as the US.  This is internationally seen as an escalation of militarization and threat of expansion. Furthermore, these actions break the promises of China's president, who said that would not transform the artificial islands in contested waters into military bases.

China refuses to acknowledge claims from five other governments to some or all of the waterway and dismissed the findings of a U.N.-backed arbitration tribunal that invalidated China’s sweeping historical claims under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.

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By Javier Isasi Serrano