Scarborough issues Both the Philippines and China continue to assert sovereignty over the same area in the South China Sea. We therefore have an “international dispute‚” an element necessary before one can go to an international court. We want to settle the dispute through the judicial resolution provision in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos); but China does not. That is the bind we are in. Suppose‚ however‚ that China eventually agrees to go to court. Can the Unclos
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an Inherent Territory of China BEIJING - The State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China on Tuesday published a white paper on Diaoyu Dao‚ an inherent territory of China. Following is the full text of the white paper: Diaoyu Dao‚ an Inherent Territory of China (September 2012) State Council Information Office The People’s Republic of China Contents Foreword I. Diaoyu Dao is China’s Inherent Territory II. Japan Grabbed Diaoyu Dao from China III. Backroom Deals Between
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are a disputed group of more than 750 reefs‚ islets‚ atolls‚ cays‚ and islands in the South China Sea.[5] The archipelago lies off the coasts of the Philippines‚ Malaysia (Sabah)‚ and southern Vietnam. They contain less than 4 square kilometers (1.5 square miles) of land area spread over more than 425‚000 square kilometers (164‚100 square miles) of sea. The Spratlys are one of 3 archipelagos of the South China Sea which comprise more than 30‚000 islands and reefs and which complicate governance and
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roots lie; that is where our ancestors were born. My roots lie in a small sea-side town in Malaysia called Mersing. It is situated in the south-east of Malaysia‚ near the South China Sea. It is a small town with a population of about fifty thousand people. It is a peaceful and beautiful town. It is one of the main districts in the state of Johor. The is a truck road connecting Johor Baru‚ the capital of Johor in the South while in the north is Kuantan‚ capital of Pahang is of almost equal distance
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CHINA AND JAPAN RIVALRY ON THE DISPUTED ISLAND On September 7th‚ 2010 a Chinese fishing craft collided with two Japanese coastguard patrol boats near the oil-rich‚ uninhabited islands in the East China Sea known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu‚ meaning ‘fishing platform’‚ in China. Following the collision‚ coastguards boarded the trawler and arrested its crew and Captain Zhan Qixiong who‚ as subsequent video footage revealed‚ had rammed his boat into the coastguard vessels. Following the
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which lie in the West Philippine Sea – the South China Sea as known internationally. The said chain of islands is claimed by China‚ Taiwan‚ and Vietnam. China is playing the bully brother among these countries. Their claims are mostly historical‚ but no concrete accounts are given as to whether they own the islands or not. Recent claims of these free lands were reported from Malaysia and Brunei‚ accounting that some of these small pieces of lands are within their sea territories‚ which are appropriately
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n 1947‚ Cloma‚ a Filipino adventurer and a fishing magnate‚ found several unoccupied groups of islands in the South China Sea. This forms part of the justification of territorial claims by the Philippines of the Spratly islands (along with doctrines from the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea).[3] Cloma‚ owner of a fishing fleet and a private maritime training institute‚ the PMI Colleges (formerly known as Philippine Maritime Institute)‚ aspired to open a cannery and develop
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Islands are a group of more than 750 reefs‚[2] islets‚ atolls‚ cays and islands in the South China Sea. The archipelago lies off the coasts of the Philippines and Malaysia (Sabah)‚ about one third of the way from there to southern Vietnam. They contain less than four square kilometers of land area spread over more than 425‚000 square kilometers of sea. The Spratlys are one of three archipelagos of the South China Sea which comprise more than 30‚000 islands and reefs and which complicate governance and
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North Korea. All this leads to a general negative impression of “big” countries‚ such as US (for the mess they made on their own economy that also affects the global economy) and China (who is one of the main culprit of environmental pollution as well as the main player in the Spratly Island conflict in the South China Sea). After all‚ ever since the Cold War‚ not one country would be pleased to have the world divided into 2 political blocs and be at the mercy of either. In such a light‚ Singapore
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heavy dependency on Iraq and Afghanistan‚ and that it required to recalibrate its approach to better expose the long-term character of America’s interests and seismic geopolitical changes occurring in Asia. Besides because of the rising of India and China as hegemonic and economic power in Asia and Asia pacific region‚ the America has been rethinking about its foreign‚ security and defense policy focusing on the ‘Indo-Asia-pacific’ without confining in Iraq and Afghanistan. This assignment is divided
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