China Built Out Unparalleled Intelligence Coverage in South China Sea Past Few Years: Think Tank

An aerial view shows Mischief Reef in the South China Sea on March 9, 2023. Jam Sta Rosa/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Chinese regime has built out several new facilities with intelligence and electronic warfare capabilities on its artificial islands in the South China Sea over the past few years, according to a recent analysis of satellite imagery by the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank’s Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI).“New facilities likely designed to support vehicle-deployed [electronic warfare] or intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems have been installed on all of China’s ‘big-three’ Spratly outposts: Fiery Cross, Mischief, and Subi reefs,” according to AMTI’s Dec. 2 report.