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There are ongoing territorial and maritime disputes in the South China Sea between China and five ASEAN nations, including the Philippines. The primary driver of these disputes is China's 9-dashed lines map from 1947 that claims sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, encroaching on the exclusive economic zones of its neighbors as defined by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The Philippines has brought one of these disputes, China's interference in its exclusive economic zone, to arbitration at the Permanent Court of Arbitration while China insists it has historic rights overriding the Convention. A ruling is expected on July 12th.

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There are ongoing territorial and maritime disputes in the South China Sea between China and five ASEAN nations, including the Philippines. The primary driver of these disputes is China's 9-dashed lines map from 1947 that claims sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, encroaching on the exclusive economic zones of its neighbors as defined by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The Philippines has brought one of these disputes, China's interference in its exclusive economic zone, to arbitration at the Permanent Court of Arbitration while China insists it has historic rights overriding the Convention. A ruling is expected on July 12th.

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There are ongoing territorial and maritime disputes in the South China Sea between China and five ASEAN nations, including the Philippines. The primary driver of these disputes is China's 9-dashed lines map from 1947 that claims sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, encroaching on the exclusive economic zones of its neighbors as defined by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The Philippines has brought one of these disputes, China's interference in its exclusive economic zone, to arbitration at the Permanent Court of Arbitration while China insists it has historic rights overriding the Convention. A ruling is expected on July 12th.

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ix 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 more at: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/573232/news/nation/the-philippines-and-
china-the-west-philippine-sea-dispute#sthash.l9LglXaO.dpuf

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