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10-01-2024, 09:10 AM
The South China Sea is not clearly demarcated to show what parts belong to China and what parts belong to the Philippines and other countries.
And there is no functioning international authority out there to remind a vessel that it had run off-course.
China claims nearly all of the South China Sea as its territorial waters by virtue of its so-called nine-dash or ten-dash line.
For its part, the US lays no claim to any part thereof, and is not even a signatory to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos), which the international community recognizes as the law of the oceans.
But the US seems to recognize no limitation to its global reach.
It has obviously decided to patrol the South China Sea as the Philippines' defense partner under their Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) of 1951.
https://www.manilatimes.net/2024/01/10/o...on/1927451
And there is no functioning international authority out there to remind a vessel that it had run off-course.
China claims nearly all of the South China Sea as its territorial waters by virtue of its so-called nine-dash or ten-dash line.
For its part, the US lays no claim to any part thereof, and is not even a signatory to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos), which the international community recognizes as the law of the oceans.
But the US seems to recognize no limitation to its global reach.
It has obviously decided to patrol the South China Sea as the Philippines' defense partner under their Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) of 1951.
https://www.manilatimes.net/2024/01/10/o...on/1927451
