China Still Reclaiming Land in South China Sea: CSIS
- Foreign minister said in August reclamation was completed
- Issue may complicate Xi Jinping's first state visit to U.S.
This aerial view of the city of Sansha on an island in the disputed Paracel chain.
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China is still reclaiming land in the South China Sea, a defense analyst said, a month after Foreign Minister Wang Yi said his country’s island reclamation program was completed.
Satellite photos taken in early September show dredgers at work on Subi Reef and Mischief Reef, two of China’s eight outposts in the Spratly islands, according to Bonnie Glaser, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. The images were published by an initiative of CSIS.