Citations:Spratly Islands

English citations of Spratly Islands

• 1945 January 20, “Seven New Year's Days”, in Army Talks‎^[1], volume III, number 2, page 5:

  In the eastern hemisphere the Japanese occupied the island of Hainan off French Indo-China; annexed the Spratly islands further south, between Indo-China and Borneo; and continued local gains in north China.

• 1975 May 11, “ROC still holds Spratly Islands; no Red challenge”, in Free China Weekly‎^[2], volume XVI, number 18, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

  The Spratly Islands in the South China Sea are still occupied by troops of the Republic of China, according to Major General Li Chang-hao, spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense.

• 2015 May 21, “Chinese navy warns off U.S. reconnaissance plane over Spratlys”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[3], archived from the original on 27 September 2022, Cross-Strait:

  A United States P8A surveillance aircraft flying near the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea on May 20 was asked by the Chinese navy to leave the area.

• 2022 June 17, Sean Chang, “'Life goes on' for unfazed Taiwanese on front-line islands”, in The Japan Times‎^[4], archived from the original on 17 June 2022, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

  A former member of the coastguard, the 29-year-old was based in the South China Sea’s contested Spratly Islands when a “3000-ton Chinese coastguard ship was circling our island with their big guns pointing at us.”