However, China has other options, one of which would be to apply pressure on or capture the Pratas Islands. The Pratas Islands are located in the northern part of the South China Sea under the ...

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the Pratas Island, Vereker Banks, the Macclesfield Bank, and the Scarborough Shoal – roughly 90 percent of the South China Sea. However, Beijing has since updated its maps with a “ten-dash ...

A civilian aircraft chartered by the military completed a flight from Taiwan to the Pratas Islands (Dongsha Islands, 東沙群島) in the South China Sea yesterday, 11 days after a previously scheduled trip ...

Taiwan’s staging of a live-fire drill in the Pratas Islands on Sunday has highlighted the chain’s strategic importance and potential to be a flashpoint in the South China Sea, analysts said.