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...
Vietnam's South China Sea Territorial Disputes: A Path to Resolution. The age old territorial disputes in the South China Sea intensified after the introduction of UNCLOS III. Numerous Southeast Asian nations have legitimate territorial claims based on international law. Vietnam lays claim to much ...
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...
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...
Islands”(南沙群岛). Even the international community has acknowledged Chinese rights of ownership for a long time. In the 1960s and 1970s, however, abundant oil and gas were found and then the valuable and “fuel ice”(可燃冰) . From then on, territorial claims over the South China Sea ...
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has signed two laws reaffirming the extent of his country’s maritime territories and right to resources, including in the South China Sea, where the new laws clash with Beijing’s extensive territorial claims ...
of international law. Starting in the 1970s, the Philippines invaded and illegally occupied by force some islands and reefs of China's Nansha Qundao and raised illegal territorial claims. This is the core of the relevant disputes between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea. ...
"China's territorial claims and claims to marine rights and interests in the South China Sea are in line with relevant international law and international practices," Wu Haitao, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, told the UN General Assembly. ...
In November 1975, for the first time, the dispute between Beijing and Hanoi over the islands appeared in public when the Chinese paper Guangming Ribao criticised the Vietnamese territorial claims. At the time China simply didn't have the capacity to conduct a sustained military operation as far...
1995 "meijijiao event", the US State Department formally announced the policy in the South China Sea: disputed territorial claims does not mean that any stand on the issue; it should be the peaceful settlement of Spratly LVL Lee (Nansha) problem; the United States against the use of force ...