China has been criticized for constructing artificial islands in the South China Sea and deploying military equipment there.
CHINA has unveiled plans for a deep-sea mega-lab that will be hidden 6,500ft down in the bitterly contested South China Sea.
Along with unmanned submarines, ships and seabed observatories, the new lab will form part of a much larger "four-dimensional" network giving China unprecedented depths information about its surrounding waters.
The incoming innovation was announced this morning by Yin Jianping, a researcher from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' South China Sea Institute of Oceanology.
China's new plans are a similar concept to the US's concept for an ocean-bed research centre being developed by Proteus Ocean Group.
