South China Sea Islands

BELGRADE - China has warned the United States it would not retreat from claims that it controls the South China Sea. VOA reports.

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On tiny specks in the disputed Spratly archipelago of the South China Sea, Vietnamese and Filipino children skip to school each day. Not far away, China is building lighthouses and weather stations on reclaimed land. Further north, a Chinese cruise ship takes "patriotic" tourists to a separate group of contested islands.