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The document summarizes the territorial and maritime disputes between China and its neighbors, including the Philippines, in the South China Sea. Specifically, it discusses China's "nine-dash line" claim to about 85% of the South China Sea that overlaps with the exclusive economic zones of its neighbors as defined by UN conventions. It also describes territorial disputes over islands and reefs in the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal, as well as a pending international arbitration case brought by the Philippines against China over its maritime rights in the West Philippine Sea.

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The document summarizes the territorial and maritime disputes between China and its neighbors, including the Philippines, in the South China Sea. Specifically, it discusses China's "nine-dash line" claim to about 85% of the South China Sea that overlaps with the exclusive economic zones of its neighbors as defined by UN conventions. It also describes territorial disputes over islands and reefs in the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal, as well as a pending international arbitration case brought by the Philippines against China over its maritime rights in the West Philippine Sea.

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The document summarizes the territorial and maritime disputes between China and its neighbors, including the Philippines, in the South China Sea. Specifically, it discusses China's "nine-dash line" claim to about 85% of the South China Sea that overlaps with the exclusive economic zones of its neighbors as defined by UN conventions. It also describes territorial disputes over islands and reefs in the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal, as well as a pending international arbitration case brought by the Philippines against China over its maritime rights in the West Philippine Sea.

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ARTICLE I NATIONAL TERRITORY

The national territory comprises the Philippine archipelago, with all the islands and
waters embraced therein, and all other territories over which the Philippines has
sovereignty or jurisdiction, consisting of its terrestrial, fluvial and aerial domains,
including its territorial sea, the seabed, the subsoil, the insular shelves, and other
submarine areas. The waters around, between, and connecting the islands of the
archipelago, regardless of their breadth and dimensions, form part of the internal
waters of the Philippines.

ISSUES
The Philippines and China: The West Philippine Sea dispute
Published July 11, 2016 5:05pm
Six nations China and five ASEAN countries, including the Philippines have
conflicting territorial and maritime claims on the South China Sea.
Justice Antonio Carpio, in his primer "The South China Sea Dispute" said the primary
driver of the dispute in the South China Sea is the 9-dashed Lines Map adopted by
the Kuomintang Government in China in December 1947.
China is claiming indisputable sovereignty to all the islands and waters enclosed
by the nine U-shaped lines that enclose 85.7 percent of the entire South China Sea.
Carpio said China's claim to these waters, equivalent to 3 million square kilometers
out of the sea's 3.5 million square kilometers surface area of the South China Sea,
has triggered several disputes that include, among others:

territorial disputes in the Spratly Islands between the Philippines, China,


Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei;

territorial dispute between the Philippines and China over Scarborough Shoal,
and

maritime dispute between China on one side and on the other side, the
Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia as these countries
resist Chinas 9-dashed Lines claim as it encroaches on their Exclusive
Economic Zone (EEZs).

These EEZs are covered by the United Nation's 1982 Convention of the Law of the
Sea (UNCLOS).
On July 12, a UN arbitration tribunal is expected to issue a ruling on one of these
disputes the maritime case filed by the Philippines against China before the
Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague on whether the Philippines'
rights to its EEZ under UNCLOS were violated by China.

The Philippines' EEZ is part of the "West Philippine Sea" that includes:

Luzon Sea;

Kalayaan Group of Islands in Palawan, and

the Panatag Shoal (called internationally as Scarborough Shoal and Huangyan


Island by China).

Panatag Shoal's old Spanish name was Bajo de Masinloc, meaning lower Masinloc. It
is located 124 nautical miles west of Zambales in the South China Sea and is part of
the municipality of Masinloc, Zambales.
The shoal, made up of a triangular chain of rocks and coral reefs, is a fertile fishing
ground located within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone.
However, China took control of Panatag Shoal in 2012 and built an artificial island in
the Fiery Cross Reef, called Kagitingan Reef by the Philippines.
China also built a 55-meter-high lighthouse in Subi Reef, called Zamora Reef by the
Philippines.
In 2013, the Philippines brought the maritime dispute before the PCA because of
China's actions. China, however, insisted that it has historic rights that predates
UNCLOS, citing the 9-dashed lines claim.
See the infographic below for a comparison of the Philippines' claim based on
UNCLOS, and China's claim based on the 9-dashed lines map.
- See more at: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/573232/news/nation/thephilippines-and-china-the-west-philippine-sea-dispute#sthash.KxFkw4hD.dpuf

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