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China building artificial island in South China Sea
Airbus Defence and Space imagery shows land reclamation ongoing at Johnson South Reef in the South China Sea. Images released by the Philippine Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 15 May 2014 (left) show the progress of construction on the reef from 13 March 2012 to 11 March 2014. (CNES 2014, Distribution Astrium Services/Spot Image S.A./IHS)
China is attempting to bolster its presence in the South China Sea by creating an artificial island on a reef in the disputed Spratly Islands.
Satellite imagery provided by Airbus Defence and Space corroborates images released by the Philippine Ministry of Foreign Affairs that shows major land reclamation on Johnson South Reef, which is claimed by Manila as Mabini Reef, as Chigua Reef by China and Gac Ma by Vietnam.
Johnson South Reef was at the centre of a 1998 confrontation between China and Vietnam that left more than 70 Vietnamese personnel dead. After taking control of the reef China built a concrete platform and installed radio and communications equipment.
The images released by the Philippine Ministry of Foreign Affairs show that since February 2013 there has been extensive dredging of the atoll to create an islet around the platform. Other concrete structures have also been constructed.
The ministry said the construction appeared to be designed to support an airstrip and said it was "destabilising and in violation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DoC) and international law. Mabini Reef is part of the Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) which is part of Philippine territory".
The DoC was signed by China and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2002 and seeks to "promote a peaceful, friendly, and harmonious environment in the South China Sea between ASEAN and China".
Article 5 of the DoC states that the parties will "undertake to exercise self-restraint in the conduct of activities that would complicate or escalate disputes and affect peace and stability including, among others, refraining from action of inhabiting on the presently uninhabited islands, reefs, shoals, cays, and other features".
Local media reported that Manila estimates the reclamation to have turned the reef and a sand bar into a 30-hectare (74-acre) islet.
In Beijing Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying reiterated China's "indisputable sovereignty over the Nansha [Spratly] Islands including Chigua Reef and the contiguous waters. Whatever construction China carries out in the Chigua Reef is completely within China's sovereignty".
US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf said Washington was aware of the reports and that "major upgrades or the militarisation of disputed land features in the South China Sea by any claimant has the potential to raise tensions".
COMMENT
China is the only major claimant to the Spratly islands not to have an island with an airstrip, so the construction under way at Johnson South Reef may be an attempt to rectify this situation. It is also not the only claimant to be bolstering its presence in the islands: Vietnam has conducted substantial land reclamation to create a harbour on Southwest Cay, while Taiwan is currently building a pier on Itu Aba (Taiping) island.
The construction at Johnson South Reef comes as China and Vietnam are sparring over the presence of a Chinese oil rig in Vietnam's claimed exclusive economic zone. It also suggests that China is looking to present other claimant nations with a fait accompli should any negotiated settlement on the Spratlys be agreed.
In the meantime, Beijing has strongly defended its actions in both the oil rig and Johnson South Reef cases and rejected attempts to deal with them on a multilateral basis. "The issue of the South China Sea is not one between China and ASEAN," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua said on 10 May after Vietnam attempted to raise the issue at the annual ASEAN summit meeting held in Myanmar.
"China is opposed to certain country's scheme of spoiling the atmosphere of friendly co-operation between China and ASEAN by making use of the issue of the South China Sea," she added.
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