islands
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In 2013, Beijing used what it learned to begin building artificial islands that now hold military air bases, according to intelligence officials from the U.S. and Pacific allies.
China’s coast guard said it was carrying out patrols in the waters around Taiwan and some of its outlying islands.
Japan’s cabinet approved a record defense budget on Friday for the year beginning April 2026, calling for spending equivalent to $58 billion, including on hardware such as drones and antiship missiles to protect against a Chinese invasion of Japanese islands near Taiwan.
That exercise came a day after Russian and Chinese warplanes conducted their own joint patrol around Japan’s southern islands.
Caminando Fronteras also noted there had been a rise in the number of boats leaving from Algeria, mainly to the holiday islands of Ibiza and Formentera in the Mediterranean.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
