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Pratas Island

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Pratas Island, China: see Dongsha Island Dongsha Island (d
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55) Eventually, as part of the encirclement of China's coastline after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 and as a preliminary step in its southern advance for the approaching Pacific War, the Imperial Navy occupied Pratas Island on September 3, followed by the landing of naval forces in the Spratlys in December 1938 and the invasion of Hainan Island in February 1939.
As China Meets the southern sea frontier: ocean identity in the ... by Granados, Ulises / Pacific Affairs
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