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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 ...
Tensions between Manila, a U.S. treaty ally, and Beijing have escalated over the past year due to overlapping claims in the South China Sea. A 2016 arbitral tribunal ruled China's historical ...
A 2016 ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration concluded that Beijing's claim to almost the entire South China Sea was groundless, but China rejects that ruling. (Reporting by Jay Ereno ...
The court ruled in 2016 that Beijing's claim to 90% of the South China Sea had no basis under international law. China has refused to recognise the landmark ruling.
August - Chinese and Philippine vessels collide in multiple incidents near the Sabina Shoal. [214] November - The Philippine's enacts the Maritime Zones Act, on 8 November 2024. [215] China objected and on 10 November clarified more detail on its territorial sea claims and published its standard names of 64 islands and reefs in the South China Sea.
The 2016 arbitral tribunal ruled that China has no legal basis for claims of historic rights with respect to maritime area (surrounding sea area) claims within its nine-dash line. [23] [24] China rejected the ruling as "ill-founded", and said its territorial sovereignty and marine rights in South China Sea would not be affected by the ruling. [25]
In 2016, an international arbitral tribunal said China's claims had no legal basis, a decision Beijing has rejected. (Reporting by Mikhail Flores and Neil Jerome Morales; Editing by John Mair ...
On 12 July 2016, the UNCLOS special arbitral tribunal in the Philippines v.China case confirmed that Subi Reef is, or in its natural condition was, exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide and is, accordingly a low-tide elevation that does not generate entitlement to a territorial sea, exclusive economic zone or continental shelf, but is within 12 miles of a high-tide feature Sandy Cay ...