The View From Asia

Strife in the Spratlys

Satellite imagery showing Chinese vessels anchored at the Whitsun Reef, around 320 kilometres (175 nautical miles) west of Bataraza in Palawan in the South China Sea, on March 23, 2021. PHOTO: AFP

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