China finishing South China Sea buildings that could house missiles

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China claims almost all the South China Sea, which carries a third of the world`s maritime traffic.
The development is likely to raise questions about whether and how the United States will respond, given its vows to take a tough line on China in the South China Sea.
Trump`s administration has called China`s island building in the South China Sea illegal.
China, in an early test of U.
S.
President Donald Trump, is nearly finished building almost two dozen structures on artificial islands in the South China Sea that appear designed to house long-range surface-to-air missiles, two U.
S.
officials told Reuters.
"It is not like the Chinese to build anything in the South China Sea just to build it, and these structures resemble others that house SAM batteries, so the logical conclusion is that`s what they are for," said a U.
S.
intelligence official.