China has quietly undertaken more construction and reclamation in the South China Sea, recent satellite images show, and is likely to more powerfully reassert its claims over the waterway soon, regional diplomats and military officers say.
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The US recently claimed that China has fielded new, longer-range submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) to threaten the US, but Chinese military experts said on Sunday that China s SLBM development aims to defend itself from nuclear blackmail, and that the US military s speculation has ulterior motives which would see it gain more funds to enhance its capabilities.