In a provocative move, China has named a new city atop the tiny Tongxing Island in the South China Sea. According to AP, the city, Sansha, represents China’s latest move to lay claim to a series of islands also claimed by the Philippines and Vietnam, neither of whom recognized the legality of the new move.
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