China may soon announce an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), with the framework for such move already set up, a geopolitics expert said on Thursday.

According to Richard Javad Heydarian, a lecturer on international affairs and political science at the De La Salle University, China’s massive reclamation on Fiery Cross Reef (called Kagitingan Reef by the Philippines and Yongshu by China) will prove to be the catalyst in the region for Beijing to announce an ADIZ.

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