Evan Garcia, Manila's deputy foreign minister, said the reclamation activities "are not a positive development to promote our common interests" and a clear violation of what had been agreed by China and Southeast Asian states in 2002.
"Just look at the photographs, these are huge activities that are designed to change the status quo," Garcia told reporters at the end of a two-day bilateral strategic dialogue with the United States in Manila.
"It is not helpful in terms of finding a way forward and it is not an example of what anybody would understand as self-restraint.
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