What have you done, Messrs. Aquino and del Rosario? Satellite images of Chinese-controlled reefs, before and after we filed the arbitration case vs China.
Before 2013, China’s most developed outpost was Mischief Reef, which had austere octagon-shaped structures and a barracks built on stilts. This is in stark contrast to Taiping and Pag-Asa’s facilities which had airstrips and buildings to house a battalion, and in our case, even a “municipal” office. Taiwan even billed its Taiping island which has an airstrip as a scuba diving resort with a five-star hotel.