As Wang Chang tidies his boat on the southern Chinese island of Hainan, it could not be more peaceful. The 31-year-old fisherman has just sold his catch and the deck is drying in the sun.
But Mr Wang is plying a dangerous trade. Like 130 other fishing boats in Tanmen, a port on Hainan’s east coast, his dilapidated wooden vessel specialises in fishing in the Spratly Islands.
The archipelago, a three-day voyage from Tanmen, has become one of the main flashpoints where China and its south-east Asian neighbours clash over rival territorial claims in the South China Sea.
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