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China’s reef reclamation in full swing
Topic Started: Aug 29 2014, 08:54 AM (615 Views)
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China building harbor on reef

August 29, 2014

MANILA, Philippines - Military aerial reconnaissance has shown that the Chinese are building an artificial islet on Mabini (Johnson South) Reef in the West Philippine Sea.

The reef’s rock and sand formation have been replaced with an apple-shaped white sandy islet on which several structures have been built. ...

Heavy cranes mounted on three ships with huge booms are being used in the construction.

Inland, construction materials, along with heavy equipment like backhoes, heavy cranes, dump trucks, cement mixers, concrete slabs as well as mounds of gravel and sand and steel scaffoldings are also visible from the air. ...

A confidential report submitted to Malacañang showed that China is also reclaiming four other reefs, all located within the country’s EEZ.

These are Calderon (Cuarteron), McKennan (Hughes), Burgos (Gaven) and Malvar (Eldad) reefs.

China has de facto control of Panganiban (Mischief), Subi and Kagitingan (Fiery Cross) reefs.

China has dismissed as without basis the Philippine diplomatic protest against the reclamation projects.

Philippine Star

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August 29, 2014

MANILA, Philippines - Aside from a newly established islet at the reclaimed Mabini (Johnson South) Reef, China’s reclamation projects are also in full swing on three more reefs within the Philippines’ Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) in the disputed Spratlys archipelago.

In a territorial aerial monitoring conducted recently, security officials saw that China’s reclamation activities were ongoing at the Burgos (Gaven) Reef, Kennan (Chigua) Reef and Calderon (Cuarteron) Reef.

While our political leaders are busy squabbling, out there in the West Philippine Sea we are slowly losing our very territorial domain to China’s creeping invasion,” said a security official, who blamed the leadership’s long-time neglect in addressing the country’s territorial issues.

Philippine Star
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