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Video. South China Sea: Beijing defiant over weapons deployment claims

Updated: 15/12/2016 - 15:07 GMT+1

Beijing has reacted defiantly to claims that it appears to have installed weapons, including anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems, on all seven of the artificial islands it has built in the South Ch

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