MANILA: Manila expects China to try to build on a reef off the Philippines' coast, the country's defense secretary said Tuesday, a move he said would be "unacceptable" in the flashpoint waterway.
In an interview with Agence France-Presse, Delfin Lorenzana said he believed China would eventually reclaim the Scarborough Shoal, which sits just 230 kilometers (143 miles) from the main Philippine island of Luzon.
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