chungsha

Example Sentences

• "The Chungsha group, also known as Macclesfield Bank, just southeast of the Sisha, consists merely of a group of underwater reefs and sandbanks."
• "The Chungsha Islands are shoals submerged by the sea. China's sovereign rights over them have always been taken as a matter of course."
• "The Macclesfield Bank (Chungsha ch’ün-tao) consists of 24 shoals, 3 reefs and 2 banks, all of which are under water."
• "The 1958 Declaration also mentions Macclesfield Bank (Chungsha) between latitude 15° and 17° but it is doubtful whether these formations can qualify as base-points at all since they are submerged features and not true islands."
• "The Macclesfield Bank is not a group of islands, but an extensive submerged atoll situated southeast of the Paracel Islands. Water depths range from 4 to 45 fathoms over the bank. Although the features lie below the surface of the sea, the People’s Republic of China has claimed these “islands,” which it terms the Chungsha Islands."
• "In August 1951, Zhou Enlai, then foreign minister of the People's Republic of China (PRC), proclaimed the "inviolable sovereignty of the People's Republic of China over Spratly Island and the Paracel archipelago." He went on to insist that "the whole Spratly archipelago, and the Chungsha [Macclesfield Bank], and Tungsha [Pratas] archipelago have always been Chinese territory.""