Map evidence for the Philippines鈥territorial claim in the South China Sea: a historical, cartographical and legal analysisKan Wang
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said China had given an assurance that it would continue to negotiate with Southeast Asian countries over disputed territorial claims in the South China Sea, and avoid actions that risked escalation. Speaking to ...
China hopes Japan will bear in mind the terms of China-Japan relations and of regional peace and stability, and reflect on its position on South China Sea disputes, Lu Kang said.Full story China resolved to defend territorial sovereignty, maritime interests: People's Daily BEIJING, July 12 (X...
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...
He said the international arbitration panel’s recent ruling against China in a dispute with the Philippines over its so-called “9-Dash Line” territorial claims fell within the rules laid out in theUnited Nations Convention on the Law of the Seathat the Spratlys were not islands...
The prevailing basis for China’s historic claims to the SCS (South China Sea) is the U-shaped line (also called nine-dotted line, or nine-dash line) officially drawn on the Chinese map in 1947 by the then–Chinese Nationalist Government, which was originally an "eleven-dotted-line" . ...
South China SeaImportant events relating to the sovereignty dispute over the Spratly Islands have arisen by fits and starts since 2009, marking the start of a new phase in the legal battle over territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea. While the exchange of legal arguments between...
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 ...
Major disputes in the South China Sea are putting critical habitat—and the food supply of millions—at risk.
the government of the Philippines did not know about Cloma's activities or give him the consent before he took his moves. 59. 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....