The essence of the South China Sea dispute was that China had a weak sense of sea power at that time, which was laid for todayA lot of hidden dangers. Even now, our consciousness of sea power has awakened, but we owe too much to history. Due to historical reasons, there is still a lot of land occupied in our country. The third largest reef in the Spratlys, Yuya Dark Sands, is the most typical one.
This111.The 7 square kilometre homeland was occupied by Malaysia in 1983 and cannot be recovered.
Yuya Dark Sands is an intermittent atoll, about 34 kilometers long from east to west, about 14 kilometers wide, its southeast, southwest and northwest have reef gates, the southeast gate is more than 300 meters wide and 36 meters deep6 meters, and there is still a depth of 11 meters at the point reef. The lagoon is 5 deep4-18.2 meters and up to 457 meters.
The area of the reef alone is 274 square kilometers, the area of the lagoon is as high as 843 square kilometers.
Even the West believes that the most suitable for building a small city in the South China Sea in the future is Yuya Dark Sand. The importance of this cannot be overstated.
Although the Yuya Dark Sand is called the dark sand, most of the reefs can be exposed at low tide, the northern two-cornered reef and the eastern line-head reef are exposed at low tide, and the western reef is still exposed at high tide.
Yuya Dark Sands is China's inherent territory, and China has indisputable sovereignty over it. As early as 1983, China issued the standard place names of more than 1,000 islands and reefs in the South China Sea, including Yuya Dark Sand.
But the move also provoked direct action from Malaysia, which in 1983 sent naval special forces to occupy the reef.
And in 1999, large-scale construction was carried out, and a two-story cement building was established on the west end of Langkou Reef, with about 30 troops stationed on the reef, 2 artillery pieces deployed, 1 shelter, and radar stations, weather stations, lookout stations, satellites and aprons on the reef.
Some friends may think, why didn't my country take action at that time, but let Malaysia gain an inch?In fact, it is not that our country does not want to move, but that we have insufficient spare power, at that time our country was in the early stage of reform and opening up, and the development of the domestic economy was the top priority, and Yuya Dark Sand was very close to Malaysia, and our navy's ocean-going capacity was limited. In the face of Malaysia's infringement, our country only opposes and does not substantively stop it, which also fuels Malaysia's arrogance. What is even more excessive is that Malaysia has extracted a large amount of oil around the islands and reefs it has occupied, grabbing a lot of profits, and in turn increasing its construction in the South China Sea.
At present, the frequent actions of the Philippines as a clown in the South China Sea have not been completely resolved by our country. Malaysia is just making a fortune quietly, and there are not too many radical moves, and our country will turn a blind eye to it. But after all, Yuya Dark Sand belongs to our country, and it needs to be recovered in the future.
After recovering the Yuya Shoal, China will be able to make use of its special reef topography to carry out large-scale reclamation and build an influential island in the southeast of China's Nansha.