South China Sea Dipute
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Naval Pursuits And Geopolitics In The South China Sea
SOUTH CHINA SEA — From here, the Chinese oil rig twelve nautical miles away is nothing more than a vertical line on the horizon, barely visible under the stormy sky of the South China Sea. It’s 8 o’clock in the morning on Saturday June 14. The Vietnamese coast guard’s white-and-blue boat moves forward, ripping through […]
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Countries Around South China Sea Bolster Claims With Island Outposts
MANILA–In many ways, the towns on the atolls of the South China Sea are just like communities elsewhere: They have houses, post offices, schools, health clinics, and citizens who use them. But the Chinese, Philippine and Vietnamese settlements are unusual in at least one way: They were all planted on once-empty slivers of land to […]