Lots of coincidences... we cancel military exercises and China removes missiles from the South China Sea. Bet they are related.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/12/letters-to-the-editor-let-all-claimants-challenge-/
Please note.
Everyone made a big things of this. They are back, apparently.
Might have been getting routine maintenance.
Here is the first paragraph from that:
A series of Chinese missile systems have reappeared on a disputed island in the South China Sea, days after satellite imagery appeared to show they had been removed (“China pulls missiles from South China Sea island in possible nod to Trump,” Web, June 10). China’s ambitions to become Asia’s undisputed regional hegemon is perhaps most evident in the South China Sea, as Beijing creates military bases along remote reefs and islands in a 1.5-million-square-mile expanse.