Spratly Islands dispute
Kerry voices concern to China over South China Sea: US official
US Secretary of State John Kerry voiced concern to China on August 5 over its land reclamation in the disputed South China Sea and militarisation of the waters, a US official said.
Civilians emerge as pawns in South China Sea legal chess game
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.
US-Chinese tensions over 'islands' rising
US surveillance aircraft and naval ships have yet to test China?s territorial claims around artificial islands built in the South China Sea, but the Pentagon warned on May 21 that could be ?the next step.?
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