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Omaha Steve

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Sun Nov 10, 2024, 02:58 PM Nov 10

China delimits a contested South China Sea shoal in a dispute with Philippines

Source: AP

Updated 4:50 AM CST, November 10, 2024

BEIJING (AP) — China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims.

The Foreign Ministry on Sunday posted online geographic coordinates for the baselines around Scarborough Shoal. A nation’s territorial waters and exclusive economic zone are typically defined as the distance from the baselines.

Both China and the Philippines claim Scarborough Shoal and other outcroppings in the South China Sea. China seized the shoal, which lies west of the main Philippine island of Luzon, in 2012 and has since restricted access to Filipino fishermen there. A 2016 ruling by an international arbitration court found that most Chinese claims in the South China Sea were invalid but Beijing refuses to abide by it.

Ships from China and the Philippines have collided several times as part of increased confrontations, and the Chinese coast guard has blasted Philippine vessels with water cannons.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/china-philippines-sea-scarborough-shoal-063d817379f1a5268e2061b9c2764afe

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China delimits a contested South China Sea shoal in a dispute with Philippines (Original Post) Omaha Steve Nov 10 OP
NO problem . . . AverageOldGuy Nov 10 #1
Yes Trump will hand the Pacific to China. Irish_Dem Nov 10 #2

AverageOldGuy

(2,103 posts)
1. NO problem . . .
Sun Nov 10, 2024, 03:01 PM
Nov 10

Trump will recognize all Chinese claims to the South China Sea and will order the Navy to cease all freedom-of-navigation passages as well as ordering Navy and Air Force to end all overflights.

Irish_Dem

(58,354 posts)
2. Yes Trump will hand the Pacific to China.
Sun Nov 10, 2024, 07:42 PM
Nov 10

Taiwan will be next.

Japan, Philippines, South Korea, etc are also on their own.

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