Citations:Sanya
English citations of Sanya
- 1972, Seymour Topping, “Departure”, in Journey Between Two Chinas[1], Harper & Row, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 102–103:
- About forty bombers and fighters were based at the Hoihow Airport and at Sanya in the southern part of the island, both fields built by the Japanese and used in the war to strike at Allied positions in China and Southeast Asia.[...]CAT kept planes at its main base at Sanya on a standby basis for emergency evacuation in case of Communist invasion.
- 2014, James R. Holmes, “Strategic Features of the South China Sea”, in Naval War College Review[3], volume 67, number 2, page 45:
- One sample question: How will Chinese ballistic-missile submarines (SSBNs) based at Sanya, on Hainan Island, reach patrol grounds in the western Pacific should Beijing choose to send them out? To maintain stealth, SSBNs would first have to evade any adversary picket submarines lying offshore. Once in deep water, they would cruise eastward toward the Philippines. In all likelihood Chinese boats would exit through the Luzon Strait, the narrow sea between Taiwan and the Philippine island of Luzon.
- 2017 December 24, “World's largest amphibious aircraft takes off in China”, in France 24[4], archived from the original on 24 December 2017[5]:
- The aircraft can fly to the southernmost edge of China's territorial claims -- the James Shoal -- in just four hours from the southern city of Sanya, state-owned Global Times reported.
- 2021 February 14, Keith Bradsher, Amy Qin, “China’s Crackdown on Muslims Extends to a Resort Island”, in The New York Times[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 February 2021, Asia Pacific[7]:
- The new restrictions in Sanya, a city on the resort island of Hainan, mark a reversal in government policy. Until several years ago, officials supported the Utsuls’ Islamic identity and their ties with Muslim countries, according to local religious leaders and residents, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid government retaliation.