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The Philippines then claimed the Spratly Islands in 1971 under President Marcos, after Taiwanese troops attacked and shot at a Philippine fishing boat on Itu Aba. [ 89 ] Taiwan's garrison from 1946 to 1950 and 1956-now on Itu Aba represents an "effective occupation" of the Spratly Islands.
The Spratly Islands dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute among Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam concerning "ownership" of the Spratly Islands, a group of islands and associated "maritime features" (reefs, banks, and cays etc.) located in the South China Sea. The dispute is characterized by diplomatic stalemate ...
As of 2008, the only Philippine-occupied Spratly island to have many structures is Pagasa (Thitu) Island, the lone barangay of Municipality of Kalayaan, Palawan. All Philippine-occupied Spratly islands are integrated as one municipality to the province of Palawan. Cities and municipalities in the Philippines are divided into smaller political ...
The Philippines claims fifty-two landforms in the Spratly Island group. Of these fifty-two landforms, only five islands, two cays, and three reefs are under Philippine occupation: the Flat Island (), the Loaita Island (), the Nanshan Island (), the Thitu Island (), the West York Island (), the Lankiam Cay (), the Northeast Cay (), the Irving Reef (Balagtas), the Commodore Reef (Rizal), and the ...
In the later half of 1970s, the Philippines and Malaysia began referring to the Spratly Islands as being included in their own territory. [61] On 11 June 1978, the Philippines through Presidential Decree No. 1596, declared the north-western part of the Spratly Islands (referred to therein as the Kalayaan Island Group) as Philippine territory. [61]
The island is the largest of the Philippine-administered islands in Spratly Islands. While most of the occupants of the structures in the Spratly Islands have military personnel or temporary tourists, the island is the only one with a permanent civilian settlement. [8] [9] [10] China (PRC), Taiwan (ROC) and Vietnam also claim the island.
The Second Thomas Shoal (named Ren'ai Jiao by China; Ayungin Shoal by the Philippines) is part of the Spratly Islands which is disputed territory claimed in full or in part by multiple countries including China and the Philippines in the South China Sea. The sea itself is claimed by China under its nine-dash map line claim. [2]
Presidential Decree No. 1596 issued by President Ferdinand Marcos on 11 June 1978 asserted that islands designated as the Kalayaan Island Group and comprising most of the Spratly Islands are subject to the sovereignty of the Philippines, [124] and by virtue of the Presidential Decree No. 1599 issued on 11 June 1978 claimed an Exclusive Economic ...