friday, july 13, because of disagreements over how to characterize the south china sea situation, a -- aseen, the association of southeast asian nations failed to issue a kuhn akay about the south china sea issues, the multilateral resolution of the issues. on july 22, the central military commission of china announced the deployment of a garrison of soldiers to the islands in this area. the guerin son command will likely be placed in the parasel islands, right here, as i say, claimed by vietnam within the economic -- executive economic zone of vietnam. -- exclusive economic zone of vietnam. july 23, china began implementing this decision. it announced 45 legislators are now to govern the approximately thousand people who are occupying these islands. they've elected a mayor and a vice mayor. they've announced that a 15-member standing committee will be running the pretecture. they've announced that this city that they are creating will administer more than 200 islets, sand banks, and reefs covering two million square kilometers of water. in other words, they have created a governmental syste