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China completing island reclamation, moving ahead with construction

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — China’s artificial island-building on territory contested by other nations in the South China Sea “will be completed in the upcoming days,” a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement said Tuesday.

China has reclaimed more than 2,000 acres of sea bottom in the Spratly Islands — much of it within the past year — an action that the United States and neighboring countries say has provoked tensions in the region.

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Chinese vessel, is used to expand structures and land on the Johnson Reef, (Mabini, Philippines), (Chigua, China), Spratly Islands, South China Sea, Philippines, on Feb. 25, 2014. PHILIPPINE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS/AP
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