While Beijing claims about 90% of the disputed waterway as its sovereign territory, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan and the Philippines have competing claims.
Retired maritime inspector Zhang Jie finds it hard to believe how much the Spratly Islands have changed in recent years.
While Beijing claims about 90 per cent of the disputed waterway as its sovereign territory, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan and the Philippines have competing claims. “We built up a comprehensive communication mechanism and worked together to save countless numbers of people,” he said. “Except the lighthouses, use of all the other public services that were offered by China has been very limited, while the number of stand-offs between Chinese fishermen and their rivals from neighbouring countries has been steadily rising.”
Story continuesProfessor Rommel Banlaoi, president of the Philippine Society for Intelligence and Security Studies, agreed that China should be more open to other countries.
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