1945 January 20, “Seven New Year's Days”, in Army Talks[1], volume III, number 2, page 5:
In the eastern hemisphere the Japanese occupied the island of Hainan off French Indo-China; annexed the Spratly islands further south, between Indo-China and Borneo; and continued local gains in north China.
1975 May 11, “ROC still holds Spratly Islands; no Red challenge”, in Free China Weekly[2], volume XVI, number 18, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
The Spratly Islands in the South China Sea are still occupied by troops of the Republic of China, according to Major General Li Chang-hao, spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense.
2015 May 21, “Chinese navy warns off U.S. reconnaissance plane over Spratlys”, in Focus Taiwan[3], archived from the original on 27 September 2022, Cross-Strait:
A United States P8A surveillance aircraft flying near the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea on May 20 was asked by the Chinese navy to leave the area.
2022 June 17, Sean Chang, “'Life goes on' for unfazed Taiwanese on front-line islands”, in The Japan Times[4], archived from the original on 17 June 2022, Asia Pacific[5]:
A former member of the coastguard, the 29-year-old was based in the South China Sea’s contested Spratly Islands when a “3000-ton Chinese coastguard ship was circling our island with their big guns pointing at us.”
