Ma Dingsheng: The role of China's Nansha airport is limited, and the US military is 100 times larger than you

China's sovereignty over the reclamation of the Nansha Sea is not suitable for permanent warplanes

Ma Dingsheng: If Fiery Cross Reef builds an airport, it will greatly improve China's position in the Nansha And the entire South China Sea, because with the airport aircraft can take off and land there, the entire strike air strike can include the whole of Nansha and some surrounding countries.

But you have to know that this airport it can only be a temporary airport, it is not an air base, nor is it a naval and air base, we have to compare, because Western experts said that compared with the US military base in the Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia, it is incomparable, we know that from the distance and area quality is incomparable, look at this map, first of all, we look at the surrounding area, a Dongsha Island, Dongsha Island this and Taiwan are relatively close, so the military contact and air contact between them is no problem. But if Yongxing Island were to be seven hundred kilometers away from the People's Liberation Army to Fiery Cross Reef, it would be farther, not to mention that Hainan Island was a thousand kilometers, which would be even farther.

Let's look at the Philippines and Thitu Island between this is a lot closer, between the Philippines and Thitu Island is only 400 kilometers, and Nungwi Island is now Occupied by Vietnam has an airport, between Vietnam and Nungwi Island is also 400 km, this projectile reef is occupied by Malaysia, Malaysia is closer to 270 km, what does it mean? It is their air force on the land, if you hit Fiery Cross Reef or fight The Nansha is the tactical distance, and China this is the strategic distance, and then there is a problem of size, we know that the reclamation of the sea is at most 100,000 square meters, more than 100,000 square meters is remarkable, even if it is the real island of Taiping Island, It's only 0.44 square kilometers, and this Diego Garcia is 44 square kilometers, it's a hundred times, Diego Garcia can park aircraft carriers, can put a hundred aircraft, this can be put in permanent residence and China is now in Fiery Cross Reef and so on, if the airport is built, even if the United States says, it has five islands and reefs after the sea is filled, all of them have built airports, this is just a tactical airport, or forward airport, it can't be permanent, if your warplanes are there for a long time, it wants organic depots, it has to have large factories that repair aircraft, and so on, which is not available, so we know that although we have spent a lot of effort to reclaim the sea in Nansha now It is good to repair the airport, mainly for sovereignty declarations and in case of a tactical collision, rather than a strategic base.