The air that sweeps the South Sea Islands is fragrant with flowers and spice.

扫除南太平洋诸岛的空气对花和药料感到芬香。

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There, islands in the South China Sea, beneath which oil and gas are thought to lie, are subject to several disputes involving China and South-East Asian neighbours.

在那里，海底蕴藏着石油与天然气的南中国海中的岛屿引发了中国与其东南亚邻国之间的争端。

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A: China has indisputable sovereignty over the South China sea islands and their adjacent waters, as well as sovereign rights and jurisdiction over relevant seabed and subsoil.

答：中国对南海诸岛及其附近海域拥有无可争辩的主权，并对相关海域及其海床和底土享有主权权利和管辖权。

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Yellow fever is found mainly in Africa, the northern part of South America and the islands of the Caribbean Sea.

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Scientists used to think that the islands were connected to the South American mainland and floated out to sea slowly.

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On Wednesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told journalists that China has "indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea islands and adjacent waters, which has abundant historical and legal grounds".

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One of those involves an increasingly shrill argument with the Philippines about who has sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal, a group of rocks in the South China Sea called the Huangyan Islands by China.

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Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan are also in dispute with China over the sovereignty of islands in the South China Sea.

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