Johnson South Reef skirmish
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| Part of the Third Indochina War, Sino-Vietnamese conflicts 1979–91 and the Spratly Islands dispute | |||||||||
Map of the Union Banks, where the skirmish occurred | |||||||||
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| China | Vietnam | ||||||||
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| Chen Weiwen | |||||||||
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The Johnson South Reef skirmish took place on 14 March 1988 between military forces of the People's Republic of China and Vietnam, on the Johnson South Reef in the Union Banks region of the Spratly Islands, in the South China Sea.