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The Pratas Islands, or Dongsha, one of the many islets in the South China Sea disputed between the nations around it, was in the news this week.
Archive 2008-07-01 Michael Turton 2008
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The airport in Taiping will be larger than that in Dongsha, it will allow for landing and taking off of C-130, F-16, Mirage-200, etc., and even air-force-1 of the president
Archive 2005-12-01 Sun Bin 2005
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China's claim on South China Sea is based on its claim on the coral islands Sisha (Paracel, controlled by China, disputed by Vietnam), Dongsha (Pratas, undisputed, controlled by ROC), Zhongsha (Macclesfield, claimed by China and Philippines, unoccupied but controlled by Philippines), and Nansha (Spratly).
Map: Settled border with Vietnam Sun Bin 2005
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The airport in Taiping will be larger than that in Dongsha, it will allow for landing and taking off of C-130, F-16, Mirage-200, etc., and even air-force-1 of the president
Tuna fish? Taiwan to become a normal government Sun Bin 2005
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The government may eventually let tourists visit the 1.74 square-kilometer Dongsha atoll now populated by 200 Coast Guard patrolmen, tropical fish, and the occasional sea turtle.
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The Coast Guard has begun to raise awareness of Dongsha by taking university students there during summer break.
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Rare bird species spotted on Dongsha kid, he and his brother began snorkeling around the pilings in murky Alamitos Bay near Long Beach, Calif.
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The newly promulgated delineations cover Taiwan, Penghu and the Tiaoyutai Islands, as well as Dongsha and Taiping islands in the South China Sea, but fail to touch on Kinmen and Matsu, both of which lie closer to China than to Taiwan proper.
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China is also in conflict with Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia over the Spratly Islands (Nansha in Chinese) and the Pratas archipelago (Dongsha), and with Vietnam and Taiwan over the Paracel Islands
IntelliBriefs 2008
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