China has opened a hotpot restaurant on Woody Island, part of the disputed Paracels archipelago in the South China Sea. It marks the latest soft push from Beijing to consolidate its claims in the b...
South China Sea: Beijing opens hotpot restaurant on Woody Island in disputed Paracels chain
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Woody Island, known as Yongxing in China, is the largest outcrop in the group of about 30 islands making up the Paracels. Called Xisha in Chinese
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Beijing has also artificially built-up and heavily militarised the Fiery Cross, Subi and Mischief reefs in the Spratly Islands
A lot of Western colonial names here that must be cease to be used ASAP:
The Amphitrite group was named after the French frigate Amphitrite
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The islands were first scientifically surveyed by Daniel Ross of the British East India Company in 1808.[38] The names of Duncan, Drummond, Money, Pattle and Roberts islands were all chosen in honor of senior figures in the East India Company.
Named after the 19th-century British whaling captain Richard Spratly
etc.
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