China/Vietnam/South China Sea: Chinese Construction on Remote Reef Rekindles Dispute with Vietnam

Nov 28, 2018 | Ralph Jennings, Voice of America
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China's new construction on a remote South China Sea reef has soured its relations again with Vietnam, a claimant to the same islet, after a period of calm, and may also draw concern from the Philippines. Satellite imagery shows China recently installed a new “platform” at the otherwise largely undeveloped Bombay Reef in the Paracel Islands, a chain in the South China Sea, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative under the U.S. think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies says on its website.