Spratly in a sentence

China’s Transport Ministry on Wednesday said its South China Sea maritime security center placed the three beacons close to Irving Reef, Whitson Reef, and Gaven Reef of the Spratly islands, which is consisted of many islets, reef banks and shoals.

Furthermore, the petitioners said the respondents compromise its claim over the disputed Spratly Group of Islands by allowing the implementation of the said tripartite agreement.

The 100-metre-long World War II ship was intentionally grounded on the shoal, known in the Philippines as Ayungin, in 1999 to reinforce Manila’s sovereignty claims in the Spratly archipelago.

The fourth base is to be on Palawan island in the South China Sea, which lies near the Spratly Islands, where China and the Philippines have dueling maritime and territorial claims.

This month, the Philippines identified four military bases - in addition to five existing sites - to which US forces will have access, including one near the Spratly Islands.

At the time, Carlos was chief of the Palawan-based Western Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), which has operational responsibility for the Philippines’ possessions in the Spratly Islands.

In response, Beijing has intensified its pressure campaign against the Philippines in the South China Sea, particularly at Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands.

The BRP Sierra Madre, a marooned transport ship which the Philippines' Marines live on as a military outpost, is pictured in the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, part of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea March 30, 2014.

The incident occurred in waters adjacent to the Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands.

Apart from China, the Spratly Islands and Paracel Islands, which are among the more frequently disputed territories in the South China, are also claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, and Taiwan.

On July 14, the US guided-missile destroyer Ralph Johnson navigated near the Spratly Islands, a network partly comprised of man-made atolls.

Despite Xi’s 2014 promise to not militarize China’s artificial islands in the Spratly Islands, China built air bases and defensive fortifications there and deployed warships to new naval bases on Fiery Cross, Mischief Reef and Subi Reef.

While the government idly watches China occupy parts of the Philippine territory in Spratly’s, an Igorot World War 2 veteran shared stories of bravery and readiness to sacrifice their lives during the Battle of Bessang Pass.

A U.S. Navy spokesperson justified the revocation by pointing to the deployment of anti-ship and surface-to-air missile systems on three of the islands that it built in the Spratly Island chain west of the Philippines.

No fewer than six states – China, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Phillipines, Malaysia, and Brunei – assert territorial claims over all or part of the (largely uninhabited) Spratly archipelago.

Now, do I think Westworld is set on Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands?

Soldiers of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy stand guard in the Spratly Islands.

Their placement on Subi, Mischief, and Fiery Cross Reefs means that China could theoretically engage ships in most of the southern half of the South China Sea, and engage aircraft flying anywhere in the vicinity of the wider Spratly Islands.

The move, if confirmed, would mark the first Chinese missile deployments in the Spratly Islands, where several Asian countries including Vietnam and Taiwan have rival claims.

Before the early 19th century, the present-day Spratly Islands were treated as features of Hoàng Sa.