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PHOTO OF THE DAY November 11, 2003  

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Where Pagasa Island, Spratly Archipelago
When 1998
Photographer Michael S. Yamashita

"Staking a claim, the Philippines built this airfield to carry troops to a speck of land that China, Taiwan, and Vietnam also call their own. The United States pledges not to intervene in the contested Spratlys."

—From "South China Sea: Crossroads of Asia," December 1998, National Geographic magazine

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