MANILA, Philippines—Chinese vessels appear to be freely coming in and out in large numbers at Julian Felipe (Witsun) Reef in the West Philippine Sea since late 2020, satellite images showed.
US-based tech firm Simularity on Friday (March 26) said images of what are believed to be Chinese ships had been “mooring, arriving and departing” at the reef, which is inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone, as early as November 2020.
The number of stationary ships dropped briefly in early February 2021 but those entering and leaving the reef regularly had been in large numbers, Simularity said.
Images from December 2020 were believed t…
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