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Bill Hayton is an associate fellow with the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House and works for BBC World News television in London. He is the author of The South China Sea: the Struggle for Power in Asia.

Calm and Storm: the South China Sea after the Second World War

By Bill Hayton | August 13, 2015 | Categories: South China Sea
In the early hours of 4 February 1945 two Australian commandos, Alex Chew and Bill Jinkins, paddled away from an American submarine, the USS Pargo, and landed on Woody Island in the Paracels. In the weeks beforehand, American airmen had reported seeing a French tricolour flying on the island and ‘Z Force’ had been tasked […]

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