BBC
By Ewan Somerville
April 28, 2025
The Chinese coastguard has seized a tiny sandbank in the South China Sea, state media has reported, in an escalation of a regional dispute with the Philippines.
State broadcaster CCTV released images of four officers, wearing all black and holding the Chinese flag, standing on the disputed reef of Sandy Cay in the Spratly Islands.
CCTV said China had “implemented maritime control and exercised sovereign jurisdiction” on the reef earlier in April.
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