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At issue is an area around uninhabited Paracel and Spratley islands in the South China Sea, which is believed to be rich in oil and gas reserves.
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At issue is an area around uninhabited Paracel and Spratley islands in the South China Sea, which is believed to be rich in oil and gas reserves.
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At issue is an area around uninhabited Paracel and Spratley islands in the South China Sea, which is believed to be rich in oil and gas reserves.
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At issue is an area around uninhabited Paracel and Spratley islands in the South China Sea, which is believed to be rich in oil and gas reserves.
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The Secretary met her Philippines counterpart against a backdrop of rising tensions between the Philippines and China, and also Vietnam and Beijing, over the nearly two million square kilometer ocean area that includes the Spratley and Paracel Islands, and may have vast oil and gas resources.
Clinton Reaffirms US Commitment to Philippines Amid Islands Dispute 2011
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Vietnamese, Philippine and Malaysian officials have voiced their concerns to Washington about China's increasing aggressiveness to laying claims to places like the Paracel and Spratley islands, U.S. officials said.
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If Party members have to attack Taiwan or even, say, the Philippines or Japan using disputes over the Spratley or Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands to stay in power, they will.
A Chat With Falun Gong, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In the deal, as alleged, China will undertake oil exploration in one of the islands in the Spratley owned by the Philippines.
PGMA Surrenders Part of the Philippines to China in exchange of Loans Nomadicasian 2008
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Over time, however, the organization began cautiously to take on political and security issues as well and helped defuse several potentially dangerous disputes, such as the one between China and the Philippines over the Spratley Islands in the South China Sea.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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Few people may have heard of the Spratley and Paracel archipelagos in the South China Sea, but Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Hoang Hai certainly has.
Hanoi Hoodwink 2008
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