Is China’s massive island-building push at Antelope Reef nearing the finish line?

New satellite images suggest China’s land reclamation at Antelope Reef in the China-sea" class="entity-link entity-location" data-entity-id="8346" data-entity-type="location">South China Sea is nearly finished, according to researchers.One image taken on June 22 showed that dredgers within the lagoon of the teardrop-shaped coral atoll in the Paracel Islands had been replaced by cargo barges, an indication that land reclamation was near completion, London-based research group the Open Source Centre (OSC) said on social media on Friday.Meanwhile, four large, blue cylindrical storage silos have appeared at what looks like a concrete production plant in the northwest part of the reef, according to one image taken on June 24 – a sign that construction may be moving into the heavy infrastructure phase.