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Subject(s)

• Law of the sea—South China Sea [Browse]
• South China Sea—International status [Browse]
• Southeast Asia—Foreign relations—China [Browse]
• China—Foreign relations—Southeast Asia [Browse]
• South China Sea—Claims [Browse]
• Spratly Islands—History [Browse]
• Paracel Islands—History [Browse]

Issuing body

• East View Information Services [Browse]

Notes

"South China Sea Island Disputes is an assembly of select texts, maps, and official documents from various national archives that present a primary record of multiple international territorial disputes surrounding the South China Sea and its various islands in the period 1877 to 1988. Ownership of the three island groups at issue--including the Spratly Islands in the central sea, the Paracel Islands in the northwest, and Scarborough Reef to the northeast--has formed the basis of one of the longest and most complex territorial quarrels in the world, with numerous neighboring countries and European colonial powers laying claim to the region. Although the majority of these islands are not true islands, and in some cases comprise little more than submerged reefs and shoals, they have played host to real violence and bloodshed in the pursuit of maritime hegemony."-- Eastview website.

OCLC

1572066768

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