Chapter 168 Four Major Project Press Conference.V

As soon as the news of Island 1 was announced, there was a big riot of reporters from several countries at the scene. After the host calmed down the order, Wu Shanshan then methodically announced the news of the remaining three islands.

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"The above is the four-island project that the Donglin Group is about to start," Wu Shanshan's voice had just landed, and a Philippine reporter rushed to the stage and asked angrily: "Do you Donglin Group want to provoke a war in the South China Sea?"

"You think too much, Donglin Group is just a local enterprise in China, not even a multinational enterprise. We have no qualifications or ambitions to provoke a war," Wu replied.

Immediately after that, the Singaporean reporter asked: "What reason does your Donglin Group have for forcibly announcing the reclamation of islands on the extended reef of the Natuna Islands in disregard of the territorial disputes in the South China Sea?"

Wu Shanshan said, "All the islands and reefs we have approved for reclamation are on the nine-dash line, and the nine-dash line has been China's inherent territorial waters and territory since ancient times, and we have never had a plan to reclaim the sea in the exclusive waters of any country in Southeast Asia."

"Isn't your forcible coverage of the island-building beyond the nine-dash line an infringement of other countries' maritime territorial sovereignty and a purely purpose of provoking disputes?" asked a Singaporean reporter afterward.

"I hope this reporter can learn more about history and the definition of the nine-dash line in China before you ask this sentence," Wu Shanshan glanced at the reporter and said:

In 1947, the Department of the Interior of the Ministry of the People's Republic of China at that time drew and published the "Location Map of Nanhai Zhudao", which demarcated a sea area line consisting of 11 intermittent lines with undetermined national boundaries. After the founding of the new China in 1949, due to its friendly relations with South Vietnam, it ceded the two sea lines of Beibu Gulf and Tokyo Bay, and changed these 11 lines to 9 lines, hence the name of the "nine-dash line". The nine-dash line is China's "traditional maritime boundary line", which is not only the "island ownership line" of Nanhai Zhudao, but also the "scope line" of China's jurisdiction in the South China Sea.

China enjoys sovereignty over Nanhai Zhudao and historic rights, including historic fishing rights and traditional navigation rights, in the waters of the South China Sea within the nine-dash line. The nine-dash line in the South China Sea is an international declaration that China owns the four major islands in the South China Sea, and the islands and reefs within the line are China's inherent territory and can own relevant sea areas according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

There is no basis in international law for the claims of neighboring countries in the South China Sea over the islands and reefs within China's nine-dash line, and the forcible occupation of some islands and reefs does not give rise to legitimate sovereignty.

Therefore, according to the definition of the 'United Nations Convention on the Sea', the No. 1 island that our Donglin Group will reclaim is 'South China Island' in the nine-dash line of China, and the sovereignty of this island and reef in the sea still belongs to China. As for what you said about covering beyond the nine-dash line, the coverage area is the high sea, and I am sorry that it is our land for reclamation and islanding, which belongs to our Donglin Group.

(Since the position of each line of China's nine-dash line and the arc and straightness of each line have not been fixed, it was only on February 5, 2014 that the United States asked China to clearly state the significance of the nine-dash line in the South China Sea. After that, there was a ten-dash line on the new map of Huaguo)

"Ms. Wu Shanshan! We are the Manhattan Post, may I ask if you built the island only to protect endangered animals and plants, or do you have another military purpose?"

"This reporter, I hope you don't over-read our plans to build islands, which are mainly aimed at protecting the diversity of the earth's flora and fauna, plus environmental reconstruction research, and these islands are not built for military purposes," said Wu.

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Five minutes passed...... Ten minutes passed...... Fifteen minutes passed, and after dealing with all the tricky problems, as well as the threatening behavior of reporters from several Southeast Asian countries, it was finally the turn of a few normal questions!

"Hello Miss Wu Shanshan! We are Dahe News, may I ask how much the overall cost of the four-island project announced by your group will be?

"We don't have a plan for the Four Islands Project, and we will invest a total amount of money until the Four Islands Project is completed," Wu Shanshan said.

"May I ask Ms. Wu Shanshan, will the Four Islands Project open up tourism business in the future?"

Wu Shanshan said, "These four islands are the home for all the animals and plants on the earth to reproduce, as long as Donglin Group has always existed, the four islands will never be open to the outside world, and some of the surrounding sub-islands may be open to tourism business in the future."

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Subsequently, the South Vietnamese State held an emergency press conference and said, "If the Dong Lam Group forcibly reclaims a large area of the island on the 'Qu Yuan Reef', then we do not rule out that they will launch a naval strike when the island is built."

Malaysia also held an emergency press conference and said that "such a large-scale reclamation of islands will be a devastating disaster to the fishing environment in China's far sea waters, and we have sent warships to this sea area, and if the Donglin Group does not withdraw the engineering ship from the sea area at two o'clock this afternoon, then we will not rule out a military attack on the sea area at two o'clock."

The Philippines held an emergency press briefing and said that both "Scarborough Shoal" and "Quyuan Island" will be only 200 kilometers away from our mainland after they have reclaimed land on a large scale, and in particular, after "Scarborough Shoal" has been built as an island, it will be less than 200 kilometers away from our capital, which is a very dangerous distance, and the Philippines will resolutely oppose this dangerous act of the Donglin clique and will not rule out military intervention."

Indonesia held an emergency press conference and said, "Your Chinese side has already issued a statement in 2015 to transfer the sovereignty of the 'Natuna Islands' to Indonesia, and now you Chinese side is now blatantly supporting the reclamation plan of the Donglin Group, do you ignore your interests in Southeast Asia?"

Amaterasu held a press conference and said:

"As for the Donglin Group's land reclamation in the Iwo Jima Islands, we do not express any opinion. At present, the Amaterasu government is no longer able to develop and maintain Iwo Jima and many other islands, and we have exchanged the sovereignty and use rights of the Iwo Jima Islands to Huaguo, and we are grateful to Huaguo for their strong support and assistance to Amaterasu for more than a year. It is their freedom for the Chinese side to sublease this archipelago to the Donglin Group, and then our Ministry of Finance in Amaterasu will also take back the US military bases and facilities in Amaterasu mainland and some islands. Because we can no longer afford the high military costs of these military bases and military facilities, if the United States is going to continue to use these places, then you will have to pay for the military expenses and lease them to us."

This was followed by a press conference held by the United States, saying that "we cannot sit idly by and watch Southeast Asia restart maritime disputes, and the United States will join Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Vietnam and other countries to conduct a new round of seven-day military exercises in the 'South China Sea' and other waters at 2 o'clock in the afternoon." ”

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The press conference is not over, a storm has quickly swept the land of China and the world, the press conference to the scene of reporters and entrepreneurs and government personnel is Donglin Group since its inception held the most when the press conference comes, foreign news media basically every country has come, but also dozens of countries are broadcast live in the world, there are hundreds of millions of netizens on the network are paying attention, it can be seen that Donglin Group is now known and influenced.

If the first "hovering car" sparked a global discussion about the future of transportation at the beginning, then the "Chinese herbal medicine plantation" is a joint prayer for the newly developed medicine that has not yet been announced by the Donglin Group for people with sick families around the world.

Immediately after the third item, everything was completely detonated, and there is never anything more fascinating, exciting and gossipy than man-made miracles, such as pyramids, the Great Wall, terracotta warriors and so on. The other two are even bigger than Taiwan Island, which are simply four small countries, and they have to be completed in one year, does Donglin Group have so much money and such awesome technology?

Domestic, foreign, red-collar, white-collar, blue-collar, black-collar, etc., high school students, college students, teachers and professors, science and technology companies, well-known schools, government officials, etc., are all discussing the four-island project of Donglin Technology Group, and even some small coastal countries immediately sent a letter of inquiry to the Chinese government, asking if Donglin Group can contract their coastal land reclamation plan?

The third question session ended with reporters, and finally Wu Shanshan said:

Donglin Group's Four Islands Project is a charity project, which is a project we promote to preserve as much diversity as possible of the earth's flora and fauna, and we not only have no income but also invest countless money, manpower and material resources.

In addition, we only carry out island-building projects in our own waters, and do not encroach on the territorial sovereignty and interests of any country in Southeast Asia, so since the official start of the project at two o'clock in the afternoon, any individual or political group that blocks the project of Donglin Technology Group, Donglin Group will not hesitate to regard it as an unwelcome group or even an enemy of our enterprise. The final project will be released in five minutes, thank you!

After speaking, without waiting for the host to come to the stage, he stood up and turned to go down. Left behind a group of reporters from Southeast Asian countries, while answering calls from China, they looked at the stage with big eyes and small eyes, clenched their fists, and shouted heartbreakingly: "You dare to try to reclaim the sea there, and see if our army dares to kill you?"