Issues surrounding the South China Sea have for years been a point of contention in the relationship between the U.S. and China — the world's top two economies competing for geopolitical influence in Asia Pacific. The U.S. doesn't claim any parts of the South China Sea as its own ...
U.S. involvement in the South China Sea destroyed regional peace and stability China will firmly safeguard peace and stability in the S.China Sea The history of the South China Sea Causes of the disputes in South China Sea China's Claim on the South China Sea ...
In a statement, Japan's senior vice foreign minister Minoru Kiuchi "voiced deep concern over unilateral actions that change the status quo and heighten tensions in the South China Sea, including large-scale land reclamation, the construction of outposts and their use for military purposes". China...
Beijing and Manila have been involved this year in a series of confrontations at reefs and outcrops in the South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety. Advertisement Advertisement The Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam also claim parts of the sea. They are concerne...
However, the People's Republic of China is currently trying to claim rights that go beyond UNCLOS and infringe on the UNCLOS-based rights of the other claimants. It deploys two arguments in particular: that the archipelagos in the South China Sea collectively generate rights to maritime ...
"Although they (China) claim to act under the aegis of international law, everybody knows that what they're doing is contrary to the tenets of international law," he said. "The biggest evidence of this is that nobody has actually supported their actions or acti...
Beijing and Manila have been involved this year in a series of confrontations at reefs and outcrops in the South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety. The Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam also claim parts of the sea. They are concerned China’s expansive cla...
The US regularly conducts FONOP in the South China Sea and has long opposed China’s claims. Such a dispute also emerged between the US and Chinain 2020, as the US Navy’s vessels carried out dual carrier operationsin the South China Sea....
Last year General Brawner visited the Philippines' equivalent of the Alamo, a grounded World War II battleship called the Sierra Madre, manned by soldiers and used to hold down Manila's claim to a disputed area in the South China Sea. ...
aHe added that China's efforts to claim the entire South China Sea as its territory was "clearly baseless."[translate] aChina claims all of the South China Sea as its own on historical grounds, even waters approaching the coasts of the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries.[translate...