US' logic back to front

Addressing the sixth Xiangshan Forum on Friday, the Vice-Chairman of China's Central Military Commission Fan Changlong stressed construction on the Nansha Islands serves mostly civilian purposes, as it not only improves navigation but provides more public services.

This is China's latest response to recent allegation by the United States that China's island building activities in the South China Sea are militarizing the waters.

But countries such as the United States have deliberately played up the issue and criticized China's legitimate rights to build civilian and public facilities in its own territorial waters. At the Xiangshan Forum Admiral Gary Roughead, retired US chief of naval operations, pointed another accusing finger at China.