Mostly academic sources, i.e. Taylor Fravel who specializes in PRC territorial disputes from back in the day had a detailed timeline iirc. Excerpt from report b

Mostly academic sources, i.e. Taylor Fravel who specializes in PRC territorial disputes from back in the day had a detailed timeline iirc. Excerpt from report by asistant secretary of defense from 2015. Note date range to 2014 to conveniently overlook fact that PRC began reclaimation in Dec 2013. And emphasis that PRC and Brunai did not have airstrips / serious military projection capabilities which sparked reclaimation race. >Over the past two decades, all of the territorial claimants, other than Brunei, have developed outposts in the South China Sea, which they use to project civilian or maritime presence into surrounding waters, assert their sovereignty claims to land features, and monitor the activities of other claimants. In the Spratly islands, Vietnam has 48 outposts; the Philippines, 8; China, 8; Malaysia, 5, and Taiwan, 1. All of these same claimants have also engaged in construction activity of differing scope and degree. The types of outpost upgrades vary across claimants but broadly are comprised of land reclamation, building construction and extension, and defense emplacements. Between 2009 and 2014, Vietnam was the most active claimant in terms of both outpost upgrades and land reclamation, reclaiming approximately 60 acres. All territorial claimants, with the exception of China and Brunei, have also already built airstrips of varying sizes and functionality on disputed features in the Spratlys. These efforts by claimants have resulted in a tit-for-tat dynamic which continues to date. https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/051315_Shear_Testimony.pdf https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/051315_Shear_Te...