The South China Sea remained more or less calm until the 1960s when significant amounts of oil and natural gas reserves were discovered underneath the seafloor. Subsequently, the surrounding States began to lay competing claims to geographical features and maritime zones in the South China Sea in...
Graham Webster noted recently in the US-China Week newsletter, China has carefully maintained ambiguity regarding its claims around the Spratly Islands and reefs. In particular, it has not explicitly stated which reefs it considers to be surrounded by 12nm territorial seas 领海. That deliberate ...
South Korea has two volcanic islands—Jeju, off the peninsula’s southern tip, andUlleung, about 85 miles (140 km) east of the mainland in the East Sea—and a small-scale lavaplateauinGangwonprovince. In addition, South Korea claims and occupies a group of rocky islets—known variously as...
Discounts the huge strategic and economic interests China has, or perceives it has, in advancing its claims to disputed islands and maritime space. Claims, in the face of strong evidence to the contrary, that the Chinese party-state is unable to prevent anti-foreign protests. ...
Republic of China (Taiwan); Vietnam. Source: Revised by author based on the map drawn by the US Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC in 1995. The islands in the South China Sea are important for strategic and political reasons, because ownership claims to them can be used to bolster...
Shoal). This standoff raises a new round of debate on the dispute between China and other claimant states on both the sovereignty and maritime jurisdiction. This article only addresses the impact of China’s U-shape line on the competing maritime claims in the dispute South China Sea. ...
China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, and Malaysia all claim sovereignty over some of these land features and waters, and the claims conflict. China, through its “nine-dash line” map and many statements, has claimed at the very least sovereignty over all the islands and rocks ...
Governments mandated many early expeditions—whether ostensibly economic, scientific, or exploratory in character—to make territorial claims. With the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in 1957–58, the present scale of scientific investigation of Antarctica began, and on December 1, 1959, the twelve...
HONOLULU (AP) — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines said the situation in the South China Sea “has become more dire” as China expands its presence in an area where multiple nations have competing territorial claims. China has showed interest in ato...
China may have pulled back from its pursuit ofparticularclaims that have no basis in international law . . . i do not mean the PRC has seen the light and is abandoning all claims deemed unlawful in the UNCLOS arbitration. Just that there aresomeunlawful aspects of China’s claims that it...