"The Xisha Islands are favored nesting grounds for green turtles. By protecting the beach where they were born, generations of sea turtles will continue to return to lay eggs," he added.

China has formally protested to Australia over an Australian military aircraft's deliberate intrusion into the airspace of China's Xisha Islands without permission, Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo ...

China said at the time that the Australian plane had “deliberately intruded into the airspace around China’s Xisha Islands”, using Beijing’s name for the Paracel Islands, adding that its ...

New additions to ‘Sansha’ City and a naming exercise for submerged features are the latest in Beijing’s sovereignty-seeking toolkit.

Satellite imagery over the past decade has shown rapid militarization of the Spratly (Nansha, 南沙群島) and Paracel (Xisha, 西沙群島) islands, with airstrips, radar installations and missile batteries ...