PolSci SouthChinaSea
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Pol Sci 51-A: Philippine National Government and the New Constitution
The South China Sea has been accounted for over a third of all trade
done over the sea – with a lot of trading ships passing by over this body of
water. With a lot of nations close by, it has in this century become at the heart
Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The dispute mainly arises from
other nations than their own. One of these claims is on the Spratly Islands –
China argues that based on their nine-dash map of the 20 th century, the
crusade of laying a claim on this territory, they have built man-made islands
on the coral reefs and partially submerged rocks of this part of the sea. These
project. In addition to this project, China has also been issuing a lot of
warnings to any and all foreign ships and other objects that pass by over or
the United Nations convention on the law of the sea. The Philippines has taken
action to solve this dispute and has brought a case over this territorial dispute
over China to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. China, however
refuses to attend to these court meetings arguing that this court has no
matter, one look at the map and my eyes can see that Spratly is so near to the
Philippines than it is to China. Moreover, the nine-dash map that China uses
nine-dash map doesn’t only trespass Philippine territory at sea, but sea
unequivocally being a bully about this territorial campaign. It’s angering and
beyond my comprehension. They have a big country as is, why don’t they focus
on improving their own land, and much as we are on the topic of improvement,
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