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China has deployed surface-to-air missiles to one of the disputed islands in the South China Sea, Taiwan and U.S. officials said.
Chinese coast guard ships are seen patrolling the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. A Chinese coast guard personnel aboard an inflatable boat approaches a group of Filipino fishermen collecting shells on the shallow part of the shoal. Beijing seized control of Scarborough Shoal -- known in the Philippines as Bajo de Masinloc or Panatag Shoal -- from Manila in 2012 following a tense standoff. IMAGES
Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense has asked Google to blur satellite images of its military facilities in the South China Sea on the tech giant’s Earth and Map services.
Chinese oil company Sinopec is building a service station in the disputed Paracels Islands in the South China Sea.
Tensions are high in the Spratly archipelago as the US conducted an operation testing China’s territorial claims.
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