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The Spratly Islands is a group of islands, reefs, and islets located in the South China Sea. These islands are claimed by several countries and have been a subject of territorial disputes. The phrase is often used in discussions about international relations and maritime conflicts
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  • A group of islands, atolls, reefs, and cays in the South China Sea.

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Only a few places in the Spratly islands would qualify as a good deal.
Brunei is one of many nations to lay claim to the disputed Spratly Islands.
It is one of the areas in the Spratly Islands occupied by the Philippines.
The highly anticipated verdict will offer clarity on maritime entitlements in the Spratly Islands.
The area in question includes part of the Spratly Islands and its adjacent waters.
The ROC was the first government to establish a physical presence in the Spratly Islands.
This may have led them through the Spratly Islands on their way to Vietnam.
China explains its historic and legal basis for its claim over the Spratly Islands.
The dispute over the Spratly islands is not exclusive between China and the Philippines.
China has apparently transformed seven reefs in the disputed Spratly Islands into military island fortresses.
Spratly Islands as well.
This move is meant to persuade China to behave in the Spratly Islands.
The man-made Spratly Islands technically can not be claimed by a country under international maritime law.
This explains the current rush to build the bases in the Spratly Islands.
Only this island among all Philippine-occupied Spratly islands is currently inhabited by Filipino civilians.

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In Chinese and Philippine warships exchanged gunfire in the vicinity of the Spratly Islands.
Thus, the Tribunal determined that none of the Spratly Islands could generate extended maritime zones.
They have some small islands West of the Philippines called the Spratly Islands.
However, US does not include the Spratly Islands in its understanding of Philippine territory.
Secret hydrographic surveys in the Spratly Islands.
For details of the Spratly Islands dispute, see the Spratly Islands page.
On the north tip of the Spratly Islands.
For sure, it's not only Spratly Islands but the entire Philippines as well.
Large detailed political map of Spratly Islands.
The Spratly Islands dispute, who 's on first?
Map of various countries occupying the Spratly Islands.
Spratly Islands ( disputed territory ).
Brunei also claims parts of the Spratly Islands.
Spratly Islands The Spratly Islands were, in 1939, coral islets mostly inhabited by seabirds.
I am fine, but there was another terrorist attack over the Spratly Islands.
China has “ indisputable ” sovereignty over the Spratly Islands and surrounding waters, Lu said.
This emboldened China effectively to seize a second Philippine-claimed shoal, part of the disputed Spratly Islands.
On the whole, however, the Paracel and Spratly Islands remained insignificant.
Those fighters can increase Vietnam 's force projection capability against China over the disputed Spratly islands.
In 1976, following the unification of Vietnam, some Spratly islands became a part of Khánh Hòa Province.
Additionally, the Philippines has a disputed claim over the Spratly Islands.
Conventional short form, Spratly Islands.
This included four ships, including three frigates, despatched to the north-west of the Spratly Islands.
Vietnamese troops on one of the disputed Spratly Islands in 2009.
In 1958, China issued a declaration defining its territorial waters that encompassed the Spratly Islands.
China 's radar installations in the Spratly Islands.
By the end of 1988, it had occupied six reefs and atolls in the Spratly Islands.
So, with that in mind, we now have to learn where the Spratly Islands are.
Vietnam 's Kilo-submarines to potentially blockade Spratly islands.
Vietnam, China, and Taiwan over waters west of the Spratly Islands.
In May 2011, Chinese patrol boats attacked two Vietnamese oil exploration ships near the Spratly Islands.

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