EDITORIAL China completes island building in South China Sea*

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) has published a report showing that China has virtually completed the building of a series of fortified air and naval bases on reclaimed reefs and atolls not far from Indonesia and the Philippines in the South China Sea.


Fiery Reef, in the Spratly Islands,just off the Philippines’ coast.

Some years ago, China was reported to have begun building islands on top of shallow reefs in the South China Sea, prompting other nati…

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