{"id":63554,"date":"2025-09-15T12:40:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=63554"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:50:50","slug":"dongsha-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dongsha-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Dongsha Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Dongsha Islands Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taiwan&#8217;s Coast Guard Administration (CGA) confirmed recently that it had dispatched vessels to repel both a Chinese coast guard ship and a Chinese fishing boat operating near Dongsha Island.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Dongsha Islands<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dongsha Islands, also known as the<\/span><b> Pratas Islands,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are a small group of <\/span><b>three islands <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">located in the <\/span><b>northern part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/south-china-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">South China Sea<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/south-china-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It lies approximately <\/span><b>445 km southwest of Kaohsiung, Taiwan,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>320 km southeast of Hong Kong.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dongsha Islands are <\/span><b>governed by Taiwan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. There are <\/span><b>no permanent residents.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> But <\/span><b>Taiwanese marines are stationed<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> there.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These islands are <\/span><b>characterized by a circular coral atoll structure.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are composed<\/span><b> primarily of clastic coral and reef flats <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">approximately 15 miles (24 kilometers) in diameter, enclosing a lagoon about 10 miles (16 kilometers) in diameter.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The island group <\/span><b>includes Dongsha Island<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, being the <\/span><b>only island above sea level<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) long and a little over 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometers) wide, and <\/span><b>Northern Vereker and Southern Vereker atolls,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> both of which are <\/span><b>below sea level.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/defence\/taiwan-coast-guard-intercepts-chinese-vessels-near-dongsha-island\/articleshow\/123880784.cms?UTM_Source=Google_Newsstand&amp;UTM_Campaign=RSS_Feed&amp;UTM_Medium=Referral&amp;from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ET<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dongsha Islands, also known as the Pratas Islands, are a small group of three islands located in the northern part of the South China Sea. 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