The US is concerned China is using "sheer size and muscle" to strong-arm smaller nations in the row over the South China Sea, Barack Obama says.
The US president's comments came amid heightened focus on Beijing's construction of artificial islands in disputed areas of the sea.
On Thursday a US think tank released images showing land reclamation work on a reef claimed by the Philippines.
China says the work is needed to safeguard its sovereignty.
China claims almost the whole of the South China Sea, resulting in overlapping claims with several other Asian nations including Vietnam and the Philippines.
They say China is illegally reclaiming land in contested areas to create artificial islands with facilities that could potentially be for military use.
Images have emerged of work in multiple areas in the Spratly islands, which several nations claim.
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