Summary: The Spratly Islands comprise a collection of up to 250 tiny islands and reefs spread over a wide area of the South China Sea west of the Philippines, east of Vietnam, south of China, and north of Malaysia. China and Taiwan claim sovereignty over all of the Spratlys. Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei claim some of them. These competing claims, which led to hostilities in the 1990s, have also led to competing claims of "exclusive economic zones" stretching 200 miles off the... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 3p.