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Chinese soldiers patrolling the Paracel Islands illegally seized from Vietnam in 1974.)
http://paracelspratlyislands.blogspot.com/2008/ 01/american-role-in-south-china-sea.html

The Paracel Islands are surrounded by productive fishing grounds and by potential oil and gas
reserves. In 1932, French Indochina annexed the islands and set up a weather station on Pattle
Island; maintenance was continued by its successor, Vietnam. China has occupied the Paracel Islands
since 1974, when its troops seized a South Vietnamese garrison occupying the western islands. The
islands are claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam, http://geography.about.com/library/cia/blcparacel.htm

Southeastern Asia, group of small islands and reefs in the South China Sea, about one-third of the
way from central Vietnam to the northern Philippines