"Some of the comments have been healthy, a couple of people have changed their minds while replying to each other. I think it's important, it needs to go out there." More now from the chairman of the European Research Group (ERG). irannews.ru/ - irannews.ru Many of them finished their tests early, she added - and nobody was caught cheating this year. In one school which they used as a base, their supplies, ammunition, and rubbish are scattered in all directions. These are not the traces of a disciplined force. It's evidence they'd been fighting in squalor and left in a hurry. In November 2015, I took off from the Philippine Island of Palawan in a tiny single engine Cessna. Our destination was the Philippine-controlled atoll of Pagasa, 400 miles away in the middle of the South China Sea. Our plan was to pass close to a new Chinese military base, built on an artificial island atop "mischief reef". They believe it indicates an "if we can't have it, no-one can" approach. Deng Xiaoping had famously said China should "hide its capacity and bide its time".