LinkAsia
| Jun 8, 2012
In a trip to the region, US defense secretary Leon Panetta announced that the US would deploy 60 percent of its naval forces to the Asia-Pacific region. China has responded by announcing a plan to build four new aircraft carriers. MBC has the story.
LinkAsia
| Jun 1, 2012
Defense ministers from both countries met this past week and urged restraint in the escalating conflict over Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. According to CCTV, however, Beijing is still laying claim to what they call Huangyan Island.
LinkAsia
| May 18, 2012
Tensioned heightened this week between China and the Philippines over a disputed island chain, called Scarborough Shoal in the Philippines and Huangyan Island in China. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reports on the country's warning to Chinese tou...
LinkAsia
| May 18, 2012
Contributor Noel Tarrazona reports from the Philippines, where many social media users believe that the Chinese government is beating the drums of war to distract its people from the recent internal political strife.
LinkAsia
| May 18, 2012
LinkAsia host Sydnie Kohara speaks with Stanford University's Don Emmerson about what options Manila has in its confrontation with China. Emmerson calls for a universal code of conduct on future disputes between Southeast Asian nations and China i...
LinkAsia
| May 1, 2012
The Chinese and Russian navies have just wrapped up a six-day joint naval exercise in the Yellow Sea, war games that some say are a response to the US-Philippines naval drills in the South China Sea. State broadcaster CCTV has China's perspective.
LinkAsia
| Feb 3, 2012
Defense ties between the United States and the Philippines are deepening, many say in order to counteract China's dominance in the South China Sea. The Asia Foundation's Steven Rood joins Yul Kwon to discuss the US military expansion and the prote...
LinkAsia
| Jan 6, 2012
A new aircraft carrier is just the first step in the People's Liberation Army's fortification of China's offshore defense. The country is rapidly expanding its naval capabilities, but says it will not be establishing foreign bases.
LinkAsia
| Sep 16, 2011
China's military buildup has its neighbors on edge, but military analyst Phillip Saunders explains why we don't have to worry just yet.
LinkAsia
| Aug 25, 2011
From Hanoi, LinkAsia contributor Nguyen Qui Duc delivers an update on anti-China demonstrations ignited by territorial disputes between China and Vietnam in the South China Sea.
— Jun 27, 2012 at 07:11 pm
...continental shelf in accordance with the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea," Vietnam News Agency reports. "This is absolutely not a dis...
— Jul 2, 2012 at 07:16 pm
...to the sea, which is part of the Pacific and the subject of overlapping territorial claims. China claims the South China Sea in full, and it is ...
— Apr 26 at 01:46 pm
...in recent months also pressed its naval and surveillance vessels to aggressively patrol the South China Sea areas. China claims most of South Ch...
— Jul 27, 2012 at 04:17 pm
— Jul 3, 2012 at 07:45 pm
...has moved to assert administrative control over almost the entire South China Sea in the last two weeks, a thrust that heightens the risk of con...
The South China Sea is a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from the Singapore and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan of around 3,500,000 square kilometres. The area's importance largely results from one-third of the world's shipping transiting through its waters, and that it is believed to hold huge oil and gas reserves beneath its seabed.
It is located
⁕south of mainland China and the island of Taiwan,
⁕west of the Philippines,
⁕north west of Sabah, Sarawak and Brunei,
⁕north of Indonesia,
⁕north east of the Malay peninsula and Singapore, and
⁕east of Vietnam.
The minute South China Sea Islands, collectively an archipelago, number in the hundreds. The sea and its mostly uninhabited islands are subject to competing claims of sovereignty by several countries. These claims are also reflected in the variety of names used for the islands and the sea.
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