VOA: China Opens Lighthouse on Disputed South China Sea Reef
China has begun operating a lighthouse on one of the artificial islands it built up in the South China Sea, a move that will likely further inflame tensions between China and its regional neighbors.
State news agency Xinhua says the 55-meter-high lighthouse on Subi Reef was turned on Tuesday during a ceremony led by Chinese transportation officials. Subi Reef, part of the Spratly Island archipelago, is one of many once-submerged reefs that Beijing has transformed into islands that can support runways and other facilities. China ignored competing claims to the outcroppings by the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan and other Asian nations. A Chinese civilian airplane made a test landing on a runway on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands in January.
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