Spratly Inseln / südchinesisches Meer

[Erich]

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Disputes in the South China Sea
Whale and Spratlys

Dec 13th 2007 | BEIJING
From The Economist print edition
Yet another cold-war revival

WITHOUT fanfare, China has created a colossal new city. It is called a city even though it barely has a population to speak of and consists mostly of water and desolate islands. It would be no more than a bizarre misnomer were it not that the affected area—a swathe of the South China Sea—has other claimants, too.
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