China is digging in by filling in:
Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the Philippines lodged the protest against China last month after surveillance aircraft confirmed and took pictures of the reclamation and dredging being done by Chinese vessels at the Johnson Reef in the Spratly Islands, which Manila says violates a regional nonaggression pact.
Del Rosario said it was not clear what China would build on the reef, which Manila claims as part of its western province of Palawan, but that one possibility was an airstrip.
Unclear? Given time, China will build another Death Star there.
Subi Reef structure
And dare the Philippines to take it back.
