Original sentence: A brief conflict in 1974 resulted in 18 soldiers being killed, and China has controlled the whole of Paracel since then, though this control is still disputed by Vietnam.The Paracel Islands, also called  Xisha Islands (西沙群岛) in Chinese and Hoàng Sa Islands in Vietnamese, is a group of islands under the administration of Hainan Province, The People's Republic of China.The People's Republic of China and South Vietnam each controlled part of the Paracel Islands before 1974.The archipelago is approximately equidistant from the coastlines of Vietnam and China, 180 nautical miles SE of Hainan Island, and about one-third of the way from central Vietnam to the northern Philippines
Edited sentence: A brief conflict in 1974 resulted in 18 soldiers being killed, and China has forcibly occupied the whole of Paracel since then, though this control is still strongly disputed by Vietnam.South Vietnam controlled the Paracel Islands before 1974.The Paracel Islands, also called Hoàng Sa Islands in Vietnamese and Xisha Islands (西沙群岛) in Chinese, is a group of islands currently under the administration of Hainan Province, The People's Republic of China.The archipelago is approximately equidistant from the coastlines of Vietnam and China, 180 nautical miles, and about one-third of the way from central Vietnam to the northern Philippines