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245 _aAiring grievances in the Spratly Islands:
_bTaipei announces plans to build new runway
260 _c2006
520 _aTaiwan announced December 2005 that it plans to build an eleven hundred metre runway on Itu Aba for the use of its Coast Guard search and rescue missions. More recently it has been admitted that military uses are also envisaged. This move is seen as a destabilising step in an already volatile situation.
650 _aSPRATLY ISLANDS
650 _aTAIWAN
690 _aSouth China Sea
773 _aJane's Foreign Report :
_gNo 2864, 19 January 2006, pp.1-3
945 _i19561-1001
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_sY
999 _c5556
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