The Philippines will raise China’s continued construction work at an artificial island built on a reef in the West Philippine Sea in the next meeting between Filipino and Chinese officials, Manila’s envoy to Beijing said on Saturday.
Ambassador Jose Sta. Romana was reacting to a recent report by Simularity, a US-based research company that analyzes satellite data, that there had been “significant construction activity” on the island that was built by the Chinese on top of Zamora (Subi) Reef.
Zamora is just 26 kilometers southwest of Pag-asa, the biggest island occupied by the Philippines that is within the country’s 370-kilometer exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Sta. Romana said d…
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