Notably, satellite images show that China is dredging a harbour that can accommodate large naval vessels and an airstrip in Fiery Cross Reef (Yongshu in Chinese)
• A prefecture-level city, Sansha , was created in Hainan in 2012 to administer (actually or nominally) several island groups and undersea atolls in the South China Sea, including the Spratlys, the Paracels and the Macclesfield Bank and a number of other ungrouped maritime features
• Taiwan has similar claims as China. It was the KMT government now in Taiwan which drew the dotted line of the Sea way back in 1947