China said it drove off two Philippine government ships that tried to “illegally land” on a disputed reef in the South ... waters near Sandy Cay in the Spratly Islands to collect sand samples ...

and Mischief Reef of the Spratly Islands during a recent transit. These China-controlled reefs were built with multiple ...

Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said the work in the Spratly Islands ... dredgers to scoop up sections of shallow reef and deposit the sediment for landfill ...