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The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is the international agreement that resulted from the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III), which took place between 1973 and 1982. The Convention was opened for signature on 10 December 1982 and entered into force on 16 November 1994 upon deposition of ...
In addition to UNCLOS, China is a party to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which contains the following provision: Article 3 - "States have… the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction"
The convention resulted from the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III), which took place between 1973 and 1982. UNCLOS replaced the four treaties of the 1958 Convention on the High Seas. UNCLOS came into force in 1994, a year after Guyana became the 60th nation to ratify the treaty. [1]
Map of the South China Sea Islands, by Ministry of the Interior, ROC, 1947. The People's Republic of China (PRC) claims are based on history and not UNCLOS. [17] However, the PRC still claims all of the Spratly Islands as part of China. The PRC is a party to the UNCLOS, signing the agreement on 29 July 1994.
This is the tenth in the South China Morning Post's series of explainers about China's Communist Party in the lead-up to the party's centenary in July. In this piece, Eduardo Baptista explains the ...
The South China Sea Arbitration (Philippines v. China, PCA case number 2013–19) [1] was an arbitration case brought by the Republic of the Philippines against the People's Republic of China (PRC) under Annex VII (subject to Part XV) of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS, ratified by the Philippines in 1984, by the PRC in 1996, opted out from Section 2 of Part XV by ...
Northrup King Seed Co., a subsidiary of Syngenta owned by Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-controlled ChemChina, was directed to divest of 160 acres of Craighead County farmland within two years.
The $1.3 billion bridge, being built by a consortium between state-controlled firms China Communications Construction Company and China Harbour Engineering Company, is expected to be completed by ...