South China Sea : worsening dispute or growing clarity in claims?Robert Beckman
Full coverage: South China Sea Is Indisputable Part of China Tensions in South China Sea have intensified, as a United Nations tribunal ruling on maritime disputes between China and the Philippine approaches. The Philippines filed an arbitration case challenging China’s claims in the region. ...
But the sinking of aVietnamesefishing boat by a Chinese surveillance vesselearlier this monthonce again brought into the spotlight Beijing's multi-year assertions in the South China Sea, in which it claims nearly the entire waterway. Other main claimants to the resource-rich waterway include ...
There had been no problem with the nine-dashed line before the 1970s, but with Vietnam, the Philippines and other countries pushing further territorial claims, more governments are beginning to deny legitimacy of the nine-dashed line. The United States and other countries have intervened in the...
The complex South China Sea dispute isn't being resolved by legal means, and we should avoid military confrontation. Is there a technocratic approach that might work? This essay in the Straits Times was authored for the Asia Peace Programme (APP) of the
Competing Claims in the South China SeaSchwartz, LauraLaura Schwartz., "Competing Claims in the South China Sea: Potential Paths Forward and Implications for the United States". Political and Security Affair. 2014.
More than $5 trillion of world trade is shipped through the South China Sea every year. Besides China's territorial claims in the area, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan have rival claims. (Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Richard Borsuk) Copyright 2017 Thomson R...
China claims almost the entire South China Sea, a conduit for more than $3 trillion of annual ship-borne commerce, including parts claimed by Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam. In 2016 the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague said Chin...
China claims most of the South China Sea region through which about $5 trillion worth of maritime trade passes every year. US Will Keep Presence In South China Sea, Obama Says There is tension in the South China seas. China has embarked on huge projects where it is creating artificial...
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....