The Philippines has deployed its biggest coast guard vessel to Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea amid Chinese efforts to dump dead corals at the shoal to alter its elevation, according to its military. The Southeast Asian nation is also working with foreign partners to restore damaged corals within its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the waterway. “What we’ve seen recently was that there is somehow a sort of dumping of dead corals in order to make it come out of the water in order for it to be declared as a feature that can be built, that can be reclaimed,” Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesperson Francel Margareth Padilla-Taborlupa told a Stratbase ADR forum on Tuesday.

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