SOUTH CHINA SEA

Calming the South China Sea

The South China Sea belongs to China! many declared.

Avoiding Conflict in the South China Sea

From San Francisco to the South China Sea

The biggest troublemaker in the South China Sea

Tensions between China and its neighbors have escalated in the South China Sea, and between China and Japan in the East China Sea.

Map showing territorial claims in the South China Sea.

The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north.

Along the Pacific Ocean's irregular western margins lie many seas, the largest of which are the Celebes Sea, Coral Sea, East China Sea, Philippine Sea, Sea of Japan, South China Sea, Sulu Sea, Tasman Sea, and Yellow Sea.

Ask ten Chinese, and nine will tell you unequivocally that the South China Sea belongs to China.

Today, we have the ASEAN China Declaration on the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea.

Making good on its claim to the South China Sea could be next.

If left unchecked, China may use the South China Sea disputes to gain effective hegemony over weaker claimants.

And China not only proclaimed Clinton s intervention over the South China Sea islands an attack, but also held unscheduled naval maneuvers in the Yellow Sea in advance of the US South Korean exercise.

This is the area China has delineated by a nine dash line across much of the South China Sea.

If Japan were to yield, the South China Sea would become even more fortified.

Americans are the biggest troublemaker in the South China Sea!! he shouted in anger.

The main island of the is the largest of the South China Sea Islands.

Geography The East China Sea is bounded on the east by Kyūshū and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, on the south by the South China Sea, and on the west by the Asian continent.

Civil society has helped transform the South China Sea from waters of contention to a sea of peace and cooperation.

Last year, China formally staked a claim under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to more than 80 of the South China Sea.

The peninsula is surrounded by the Yellow Sea to the west, the East China Sea and Korea Strait to the south, and the East Sea.

U.S. Navy and Republic of Singapore ships steam through the South China Sea in 2008.

The ASEAN Declaration on the South China Sea is another example of regional confidence building.

The ongoing disputes in the East China Sea and the South China Sea mean that Japan s top foreign policy priority must be to expand the country s strategic horizons.

And I went sailing on it, and we did surveys throughout the southern South China sea and especially the Java Sea.

Surrounded by China to the north, and a number of South East Asian countries, the South China Sea covers an area of around 4 million square meters.

The East China Sea is a marginal sea east of China.

In other words, a few rocks in the South China Sea have put China between a rock and a hard place.

Disputes in the South China Sea involving China and five of its neighbors, and in southern Asia, are equally resource driven.

During the same period, the Royal Navy took anti piracy actions in the South China Sea.

To date, China has been silent about the implications of the San Francisco Treaty for its claims in the South China Sea.

For example, China began pressing territorial claims in the South China Sea, as well as escalating a longstanding border dispute with India.

A recent announcement by the provincial government in Hainan, China, which has responsibility for the South China Sea territories claimed by China, has probably reinforced that impulse.

Among those issues was the potentially difficult situation of the conflicting claims in the South China Sea.

To the west is the Yellow Sea, to the south is the East China Sea, and to the east is Ulleung do and Liancourt Rocks in the Sea of Japan (East Sea).

SEOUL Last month, China unveiled its first aircraft carrier, and is gearing up to challenge the United States in the South China Sea.

The dot reference is related to the nine dash line China uses to demarcate its claim to most of the South China Sea.

55 The case studies are the Dnipro River Basin, Caspian Sea, South China Sea, Lake Tanganyika, Benguela Current and Bermejo River strategic action programmes.

All of this is fueling nationalist sentiment in China and South Korea, and making even more dangerous the already volatile territorial disputes in the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan.

All six of these states have been pushing China to negotiate with ASEAN a multilateral process to resolve the South China Sea territorial disputes.

In effect, China is in the process of building a group of literally unsinkable aircraft carriers in the middle of the South China Sea.

The Korean peninsula, Taiwan, and the South China Sea s islands and sea lanes are all issues of potential dispute between the US and China.

Several SIDS located in the Mediterranean, the South China Sea and the Persian Gulf are in this situation.