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Title:
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South China Sea dispute: Rewriting the history of Scarborough Shoal
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Author:
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Peter Lee
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Source:
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Asia Times
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Date:
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April 16, 2016
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Description:
- Today, occupation of Scarborough Shoal symbolizes the PRC threat in the South China Sea. As the PRC faces imminent repudiation of its Nine Dash Line claim inside the Philippine EEZ under the UNCLOS arbitration panel, there have been a blizzard of reports in the western press that the PRC intends to extend its infamous island-building program to the shoal, located less than 150 nautical miles from the main Philippine island of Luzon.
