The world’s largest coastguard vessel from China, CCG 5901, has docked in Manila’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea, according to the Philippine Coast Guard. According to PCG, the 165-meter, also called the “monster ship”, breached Manila’s 200-nautical mile EEZ...
China could trigger a paradigm shift in disputes in the South China Sea if it were to issue charts indicating the outer limit of its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) claims from the islands over which it claims sovereignty. A full effect 'equidistance line' from the largest islands towards the ...
Manila refers to the portion of the South China Sea that is within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) as the West Philippine Sea. Efforts to find a legally viable way to cooperate on energy exploration have stalled repeatedly, with previous administration abandoning talks in June ...
A Philippine security official says China is “pushing us to the wall” with growing aggression in the disputed South China Sea and warned that “all options are on the table” for Manila’s response, including new international lawsuits.
China and the Philippines have traded barbs for months over dangerous manoeuvres at the Second Thomas Shoal, an atoll within Manila's 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea. China claims the area as its own.
This paper examines the impact of geopolitics on the South China Sea maritime dispute and it submits three propositions. First, the resolution of this dispute to achieve long-term stability is through the application of UNCLOS and the accepted norms and rules of international law. However, China...
For the purposes of the South China Sea dispute, an important part of UNCLOS are the definitions of what constitutes land features. An island controlled by a country is entitled to a territorial sea of 12 nautical miles as well as an EEZ of up to 200 nautical miles (370 km). A rock ...
China claims almost all of the South China Sea, including parts of the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the western part of the country. BRP Teresa Magbanua Successfully Pushes Chinese Coast Guard Vessel Further from Zambales The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) vessel, BRP Teresa Mag...
Definition Continental Shelf (CS) refers to the part of the seabed sloping gently between the coast and the deep ocean. Geographically and legally the definition of the Continental Shelf is different from the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Comments The Continental Shelf is the sub-sea extension of...
and escorts into the South China Sea, which Vietnam calls the East Sea, and infringed upon Vietnam's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and continental shelf earlier this month, she said it is important that countries speak up against China's infringement of Vietnam's sovereignty and jur...