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That statement refers to a 2016 ruling by an international court of arbitration, which found that most of China’s claims in the South China Sea were invalid. Beijing has rejected the ruling.
The Philippines filed a claim with the U.N. on Saturday to an extended continental shelf (ECS) in the South China Sea, a waterway where it has had increasingly confrontational maritime disputes ...
China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims.
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 ...
The Philippines claims fifty-two landforms in the Spratly Island group. Of these fifty-two landforms, only five islands, two cays, and three reefs are under Philippine occupation: the Flat Island (), the Loaita Island (), the Nanshan Island (), the Thitu Island (), the West York Island (), the Lankiam Cay (), the Northeast Cay (), the Irving Reef (Balagtas), the Commodore Reef (Rizal), and the ...
The jurisdiction of the ICC investigation in the Philippines will be limited to the period when the country was a state party to the Rome Statute, between November 1, 2011, and March 16, 2019, encompassing almost three years of Duterte's presidency, during which the Philippine drug war was at its height.
Its claims overlap with those of the Philippines and four other nations. In 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague said China's claims had no legal basis, a decision Beijing rejects.
Confrontations between Manila and Beijing have intensified in the South China Sea, a key trade route where Beijing lays its claim. Countries such as the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia ...