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Ms. Rukmani Gupta, Senior Asia-Pacific Analyst for IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly
Land reclamation activities undertaken in the South China Sea enable various parties to increase their presence in the region and reassert their claims. Reclamation may have been viewed as less contentious method than creating completely new facilities for retaining control over maritime features in the past. However, a review of recent efforts by various countries in this regard illustrates the danger inherent in continued building activities. Resolve for such activities is tempered by access to resources in the form of man-power, capital and technology. It is therefore unsurprising that reclamation activities by some states are more intensive than others. Although under UNCLOS 60(8), artificial installations do not have the same status as islands neither affecting a state’s territorial sea boundary, EEZ, or continental shelf boundary; reclamation work is steadily paving the way for changing the status quo on the sea.
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