• This photo taken through a window of a military plane shows China's alleged ongoing reclamation of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea on Monday. Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang, the Philippines' military chief, has flown to Pagasa Island, a Filipino-occupied island in the South China Sea, amid territorial disputes in the area with China, vowing to defend the islet and help the mayor develop tourism and marine resources there. | RITCHIE B. TONGO / POOL PHOTO VIA AP
    This photo taken through a window of a military plane shows China's alleged ongoing reclamation of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea on Monday. Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang, the Philippines' military chief, has flown to Pagasa Island, a Filipino-occupied island in the South China Sea, amid territorial disputes in the area with China, vowing to defend the islet and help the mayor develop tourism and marine resources there. | RITCHIE B. TONGO / POOL PHOTO VIA AP

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THITU ISLAND, SOUTH CHINA SEA – As the Philippine military C-130 transport plane made its approach to the country’s most precious outpost in the disputed South China Sea on Monday, it flew past a reef that China is quickly turning into an island.

At least two cranes and two dredgers were visible on Subi Reef from the plane taking local and foreign reporters on a rare trip to Thitu island.

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