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China's Groovy Ocean Grab

For a issue of years the Republic of China has been engaged inwards a huge territory pick out care of inwards the South China Sea. It has claimed countless coral reefs too engaged inwards edifice artificial islands, both of which it is using to build novel armed services bases. Other countries inwards the surface area dispute China's ownership of these islands too are becoming increasingly worried nearly the country's growing armed services presence.

Reuters has been examining satellite imagery to runway China's armed services expansion inwards the South China Sea. In Concrete too Coral Reuters has worked alongside Earthrise Media to explore China's structure projects, peculiarly on the Paracel too Spratly islands. As business office of this investigation Reuters has mapped out the extent of China's dredging too reclamation operate on both isle chains. This is presented inwards 2 maps showing the extent of the Paracel too Spratley islands earlier too later China's reclamation work.



Both these maps demo that the territory owned past times China has increased dramatically over the end few years every bit it reclaims dry reason for armed services installations. During the same menstruum the amount of reefs too islands owned past times other countries on the Spratly Islands has remained largely the same. Only South Vietnam appears to accept reclaimed a lilliputian land, too nowhere close to the extent of China.

Reuters' pocket-size multiples graphic of the Spratly too Paracel Islands is supported past times satellite imagery which similarly shows the extent of China's dredging too reclamation work. The satellite imagery too reveals the extent of China's armed services structure operate on the islands.

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative has mapped out all the territorial claims of the Asia Pacific. Its Maritime Claims of the Asia Pacific attempts to furnish an every bit complete, accurate too up-to-date map every bit possible of all the competing maritime claims inwards the region.


On the map each country's territorial claims are shown using color-coded borders. The map includes a filter pick which allows yous to persuasion whatever combination of countries' claims on the map. By selecting whatever 2 country's territorial claims on the map it is possible to come across just where they accept territorial disputes.

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative map doesn't demo territorial claims for the Spratly too Paracel Islands "due to a lack of clarity nearly what each province claims".


In the end few years both China too Nihon accept escalated their armed services presence inwards the South too East China Seas. China has too give-up the ghost caught upward inwards diplomatic rows alongside Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines too Negara Brunei Darussalam over long standing conflicting claims over territorial rights inwards the China seas.

Al Jeezera has published a map examining the history of the South China Sea Disputes. The map explores about of the historical hot-spots betwixt China too its neighbors inwards the surface area since 1974. The map itself was created using Leaflet.js too the Knight Lab Story Maps library.

The Story Maps template agency that yous tin explore the map chronologically, using the forrad too dorsum arrows to progress through Al Jaeera's mapped history of the region. You tin too click on the map markers to boundary to private locations on the map to acquire to a greater extent than nearly the history of territorial disputes inwards that area.