evidence: - Pratas Island and the Vereker Banks, disputed between the PRC and the ROC, occupied by the ROC. - The Spratly Islands, disputed between the PRC, the ROC and Vietnam (and to a lesser degree by Malaysia, the Philippines and Brunei, claiming various parts of the archipelago).[4][5] [...] In the 19th century, as a part of the occupation of Indochina, France claimed control of the Spratlys until the 1930s, exchanging a few with the British. During World War II, the South China Sea islands were all occupied by Japan. The People's Republic of China, founded in 1949, claimed the islands as part of the province of Canton (Guangdong), and later of the Hainan special administrative region.