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"ref": "1938 July 13 [1938 July 5], Suiharu Hirata, quotee, “Industrialist Claims Paracels”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume CCVIII, number 3701, Shanghai, sourced from Tokyo, →OCLC, page 58, column 1",
"text": "\"After that France kept a watchful eye on Hsisha Island and sent warships there and declared that she had taken possession of Hsisha Island, together with the other Paracel Islands. But as the result of Japanese protests the French claim was abandoned.",
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"ref": "1975, “Collision Course in Vietnam (1965)”, in Kwan Ha Yim, editor, China & the U.S., 1964-72, New York: Facts on File, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 77",
"text": "Johnson Apr. 24 issued an executive order designating Vietnam and the waters adjacent to it a “combat zone.” The “combat zone,” according to Peking’s reading, included part of China’s territorial waters in the vicinity of Hsisha Island.",
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"ref": "1975 December 12, Shih Ti-tsu, “South China Sea Islands, Chinese Territory Since Ancient Times”, in Peking Review, volume 18, number 50, archived from the original on 2012-10-28, page 13",
"text": "After Japanese imperialism occupied the Tungsha Islands in 1907, Chang Jen-chun, Governor of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, made representations to the Japanese Consul in Kwangchow to recover the Tungsha Islands and, in April 1909, sent more than 170 people under Admiral Li Chun and Captains Wu Ching-jung and Liu Yi-kuan to the Hsisha Islands.",
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"ref": "1976, “Relics on Hsisha Islands”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XV, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65, column 1",
"text": "Surveys made by Chinese archaeologists of historical relics on the Hsisha Islands have yielded excellent results including many important discoveries.",
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"ref": "1976 June 6, “ROC reiterates ownership of southern islets”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 22, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 5",
"text": "The Ministry also said the Hsisha Islands are “an integral part of the territory of the Republic of China,” refuting Vietnam claims.",
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"ref": "1995, Jeanette Greenfield, “China and the Law of the Sea”, in James Crawford, Donald R. Rothwell, editors, The Law of the Sea in the Asian Pacific Region: Developments and Prospects, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 26",
"text": "China, Taiwan and Vietnam claim the Paracel Islands (known to the Chinese as Hsisha Islands).",
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"ref": "2009 July 10, 洪健昭, “Sovereignty over the Spratlys II”, in National Policy Foundation [國家政策研究基金會], archived from the original on 2024-03-19",
"text": "South Vietnam's navy stopped Chinese fishing vessels off Hsisha, also known as the Paracel Islands, twice in February 1959.",
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"ref": "2015, Bi-yu Chang, Place, Identity and National Imagination in Postwar Taiwan, Routledge, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page https://books.google.com/books?id=0AaUBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT108",
"text": "Starting from 2004, the ROC yearbooks dropped the claim to the Hsisha Islands (Paracel Islands). The most likely reason was that the PRC had actual control over this area. By remvoing the Hsisha Islands from the list of 'ROC territories' in the South China Seas, Taiwanese authorities seemed to tacitly acknowledge the PRC's 'ownership' of the islands and also declare itself to be different from the PRC.",
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"ref": "2016 February 7, Chih-yu (石之瑜) Shih, “Ma dirties waters in the South China Sea”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-02-07, Editorials, page 8",
"text": "First, the Vietnam Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei expressed its opposition on the eve of Ma’s trip. Vietnam has always been opposed to Taiwan’s claim to the Spratly (Nansha, 南沙) and Paracel (Hsisha, 西沙) islands.",
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"ref": "2022, Hai Dang Vu, “Implications of the San Francisco Treaty on Paracel and Spratly Disputes: A Vietnamese Perspective”, in Yoneyuki Sugita, Victor Teo, editors, Rethinking the San Francisco System in Indo-Pacific Security, Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →OCLC",
"text": "The draft (Peace Treaty) stipulated that Japan shall renounce all claims to Nan-wei (Spratly) Island and to the Hsisha (Paracel) Archipelago but does not mention the problem of restitution of sovereignty.",
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"text": "\"After that France kept a watchful eye on Hsisha Island and sent warships there and declared that she had taken possession of Hsisha Island, together with the other Paracel Islands. But as the result of Japanese protests the French claim was abandoned.",
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"text": "After Japanese imperialism occupied the Tungsha Islands in 1907, Chang Jen-chun, Governor of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, made representations to the Japanese Consul in Kwangchow to recover the Tungsha Islands and, in April 1909, sent more than 170 people under Admiral Li Chun and Captains Wu Ching-jung and Liu Yi-kuan to the Hsisha Islands.",
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},
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"ref": "1995, Jeanette Greenfield, “China and the Law of the Sea”, in James Crawford, Donald R. Rothwell, editors, The Law of the Sea in the Asian Pacific Region: Developments and Prospects, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 26",
"text": "China, Taiwan and Vietnam claim the Paracel Islands (known to the Chinese as Hsisha Islands).",
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},
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"ref": "2009 July 10, 洪健昭, “Sovereignty over the Spratlys II”, in National Policy Foundation [國家政策研究基金會], archived from the original on 2024-03-19",
"text": "South Vietnam's navy stopped Chinese fishing vessels off Hsisha, also known as the Paracel Islands, twice in February 1959.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2015, Bi-yu Chang, Place, Identity and National Imagination in Postwar Taiwan, Routledge, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page https://books.google.com/books?id=0AaUBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT108",
"text": "Starting from 2004, the ROC yearbooks dropped the claim to the Hsisha Islands (Paracel Islands). The most likely reason was that the PRC had actual control over this area. By remvoing the Hsisha Islands from the list of 'ROC territories' in the South China Seas, Taiwanese authorities seemed to tacitly acknowledge the PRC's 'ownership' of the islands and also declare itself to be different from the PRC.",
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},
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"ref": "2016 February 7, Chih-yu (石之瑜) Shih, “Ma dirties waters in the South China Sea”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-02-07, Editorials, page 8",
"text": "First, the Vietnam Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei expressed its opposition on the eve of Ma’s trip. Vietnam has always been opposed to Taiwan’s claim to the Spratly (Nansha, 南沙) and Paracel (Hsisha, 西沙) islands.",
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"ref": "2022, Hai Dang Vu, “Implications of the San Francisco Treaty on Paracel and Spratly Disputes: A Vietnamese Perspective”, in Yoneyuki Sugita, Victor Teo, editors, Rethinking the San Francisco System in Indo-Pacific Security, Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →OCLC",
"text": "The draft (Peace Treaty) stipulated that Japan shall renounce all claims to Nan-wei (Spratly) Island and to the Hsisha (Paracel) Archipelago but does not mention the problem of restitution of sovereignty.",
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