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Mischief Reef, also known as Vành Khăn Reef (Vietnamese: Đá Vành Khăn), Meiji Reef (Chinese: 美濟礁/美济礁; pinyin: Měijì Jiāo) or Panganiban Reef [1] (Filipino: Bahura ng Panganiban), is a low tide elevation (LTE) reef/atoll surrounding a large lagoon in the southeastern region of Dangerous Ground in the east of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
When China built their facilities on Mischief Reef within the Philippine EEZ in 1995, then National Security Advisor Jose T. Almonte pushed for the establishment of a lighthouse on Scarborough Shoal to bolster the Philippine claim. The parts of the lighthouse had been fabricated on the mainland Philippines but, according to Almontre, the ...
The latest island China has just completed at Mischief Reef is more than 9km (six miles) long. That is 9km of living reef that is now buried under millions of tonnes of sand and gravel." [43] A 2014 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report noted that "Sand is rarer than one thinks."
Swallow Reef (Layang-Layang) Malaysia: Layang-Layang Airport: LAC: 1995: 1,367 m Dual-use concrete airport. Fiery Cross Reef People's Republic of China: Yongshu Airport: AG 4553: 2016: 3,300 m (est.) Dual-use concrete airport. Subi Reef People's Republic of China: Zhubi Airport: 2016: 3,000 m (est.) Dual-use concrete airport. Mischief Reef ...
Cuarteron Reef: Disputed: 8 0 Currently being converted into an island by China as part of the Great Wall of Sand. Also claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan. Macau New Urban Zones Macau: 7.3 Northern City Bahrain: 7 1,000 Mischief Reef: Disputed: 5.58 0 Currently being converted into an island by China as part of the Great Wall of Sand.
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The Scarborough Shoal standoff is a dispute between the Philippines and the People's Republic of China over the Scarborough Shoal.Tensions began on April 8, 2012, after the attempted apprehension by the Philippine Navy of eight mainland Chinese fishing vessels near the shoal, [1] which resulted in the actual control of the atoll under China.
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