MANILA, Philippines—China continued to build structures on Zamora (Subi) Reef, one of its biggest man-made islands in the West Philippine Sea, in the last few months.
US-based tech firm Simularity’s South China Sea Rapid Alert Service on Thursday (March 25) released satellite images showing “significant construction” on the reef, which is only 13 nautical miles from Philippine-occupied Pag-asa Island, from November 2020 to March 2021.
According to the report, the changes seen in the satellite images were “mostly land-related reshaping orreconfiguration.”
“The areas of loose, white, bulk material are probably sand. The volume of chang…
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