For context, Beijing’s efforts to militarize Fiery Cross Reef are only a small part of China’s massive and controversial program to create a “Great Wall of Sand” across the South China Sea ...

Recent satellite imagery of Fiery Cross in the Spratly Islands reveals that China’s construction of facilities on the reef is more ambitious than previously appreciated, with one of its building ...

Chinese military personnel stationed on a reclaimed South China Sea island “expelled” an approaching ship, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported on Friday. The report said the incident ...

South China Sea: US Navy Destroyer Asserts Freedom of Navigation Near Fiery Cross Reef The USS William P. Lawrence conducted an innocent passage near Fiery Cross Reef. By Ankit Panda May 10, 2016 ...

US Warship Sails near Chinese-claimed Reef China scrambled fighter jets on Tuesday as a U.S. navy ship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, a patrol China denounced as an ...

DigitalGlobe imagery of the nearly completed construction within the Fiery Cross Reef located in the South China Sea. DigitalGlobe—ScapeWare3d/Getty Images ...

China has turned a strategically important reef into probably the biggest island in the Spratlys, Chinese scholars say, and the expansion is expected to continue.

Yongshu, the Chinese name for Fiery Cross Reef, is part of the Spratly Islands, a region claimed by multiple countries and referred to as the Nansha Islands in China.

China has its "Big Three" Spratly Islands - Mischief Reef, Subi Reef and Fiery Cross - which have been fully militarised with anti-ship and anti-aircraft missile systems, laser and jamming ...

By 2020 China was operating some of its Y-8FQ ASW (Anti-submarine Warfare) aircraft from a 3,100 meter (10,000 foot) airstrip on the Fiery Cross (Yongshu) Reef airbase.

Key point: Other countries have worked to project power to contested South China Sea features; with the airstrip on Fiery Cross Reef, China has worked to project power from them.