Spratly Islands

CHINA’S CLAIM TO THE SPRATLY ISLANDS IS JUST A MISTAKE

April 10, 2023

This article is an adaptation of an academic publication by Bill Hayton published in ‘Modern China’ as ‘The Modern Origins of China’s South China Sea Claims: Maps, Misunderstandings, and the Maritime Geobody.’ A version of this article was published in Vietnamese by BBC and may be read here. By Bill Hayton The South China Sea is a dangerous place…

January 9, 2023

Written by Kenneth Pletcher Spratly Islands, Chinese (Pinyin) Nansha Qundao or (Wade-Giles transliteration) Nan-sha Ch’un-tao, Malay Kepulauan Spratly, Pilipino Pangkat Islang Kalayaan, Vietnamese Quan Dao Truong Sa, large group of reefs, shoals, atolls, and small islets in the South China Sea of the Pacific Ocean. They are located north of insular Malaysia and are roughly…

Vietnamese Claims to the Truong Sa Archipelago

December 30, 2022

Todd C. Kelly Todd C. Kelly graduated from the M.A. program in Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in August 1999. There is a tide in the affairs of men[1] On a string of mere flyspeck islands in the middle of the high seas, the military forces of five nations stand arrayed…