Mischief Reef

The New York Times published a fascinating piece this morning on Chinese island building in the South China Sea. Dredgers - the boats you see here around "Mischief Reef" - pump sediment from the ocean up into floating pipes, and deposit the material onto the reef to increase land area. This enables the large-scale construction projects currently underway on the newly formed islands. See the full story .

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