Strategically important: The Spratly Islands are a motley collection of 100 small islands and reefs smack in the waters of South China Sea.
PETALING JAYA: The South China Sea is ranked as one of the world’s most strategically important maritime locations, and also one of the most hotly contested.
A whopping US$5tril in trade flows through the waterways each year, representing a third of global maritime trade commerce.
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