
If approved, the project will extend to 500 meters (1,640 feet) runway on Taiping Island, the largest in the disputed waters and some 860 miles (1376 kilometers) from Taiwan, Liberty Times said.
"National security authorities recently held a meeting to evaluate the proposal because the situation in the South China Sea has been getting ever complicated,
" it quoted a security source as saying the unnamed nationwide.
Tensions in the South China Sea has increased recently, with China and the Philippines are locked in a maritime dispute over Scarborough Shoal, an offshore reef in the Philippines.
taiwan runway, now 1150 meters (3773 feet), built in 2006 despite protests from other countries with claims in potentially oil-rich region, including Vietnam, Brunei, China, Malaysia and the Philippines.
but taiwan runway is luxury with more plane.