【明報專訊】CHINA'S reclamation on seven Spratly reefs and islets is reportedly about to end. It will afterwards start its infrastructure projects there. Last week China's foreign ministry said some facilities on those reefs and islets were meant to serve military needs and more of them were meant to serve civilian needs. There is no doubt that, if China stops reclaiming land there, some of its neighbours and the US will be less vociferous in raising objections. However, it does not follow that enmity will end. Sino-US relations (renormalised thirty-six years ago) seem about to take on a new shape, which will in all probability emerge when Xi Jinping visits the US next September.