China deploys fighter jets to contested island in South China Sea

Washington: China has deployed fighter jets to the same contested island in the South China Sea to which it also has sent surface-to-air missiles, US officials said on Wednesday.

Refering to two anonymous US authorities, Fox News said US insight administrations had spotted Chinese Shenyang J-11 and Xian JH-7 warplanes on Woody Island in the debated Paracel Islands chain in the course of recent days.

Naval force Captain Darryn James, a representative for US Pacific Command, affirmed the report yet noticed that Chinese contender planes have already utilized the island.

Woody Island, which is likewise guaranteed by Taiwan and Vietnam, has had an operational landing strip following the 1990s however it was redesigned a year ago to suit the J-11.

“We are still worried that the Chinese keep on putting propelled arms frameworks on this questioned domain,” James said.

The move was accounted for as US Secretary of State John Kerry facilitated his Chinese partner, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in Washington.

A week ago, China affirmed it had put “weapons” on Woody Island, guarding what it said was its sovereign right to do as such.

A US official told AFP that Beijing has conveyed surface-to-air rockets on the island, clearly HQ-9s, which have a scope of around 125 miles (200 kilometers.)

Wang had been booked to visit the Pentagon prior yesterday yet the visit was crossed out because of a “planning struggle,” authorities said.

On Monday, the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies discharged satellite symbolism demonstrating what gave off an impression of being a high-recurrence radar establishment under development on a simulated island on Cuarteron Reef in the Spratlys.

China’s property recovery and military development in the South China Sea have drawn worldwide judgment and the United States has said it will keep on beijing so as to cruise through waters guaranteed.