A Newsweek map shows the path followed by Chinese ... The West Philippine Sea is the country's term for the portion of the South China Sea lying within its EEZ. Guo Jiakun, Chinese Foreign ...

He covers U.S.-China ... zone (EEZ)—where maritime law grants Manila the sole rights to natural resources. China asserts sovereignty over upwards of 90 percent of the South China Sea, putting ...

China could claim a 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone encompassing almost all of the South China Sea. China could also declare an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) around the Spratly ...

Territorial disputes in the South ... China and Vietnam is also a concern. In May 2014, China deployed a deep-sea oil rig in Vietnam's two hundred–nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ ...

China issued a map in 1947 detailing its claims over a vast majority of the area with the so-called nine-dash line and calls it the South Sea, while the Philippines calls its own claimed parts the ...

on the South China Sea disputes and international law. The mass incursion of Chinese vessels into the Philippines' EEZ is a dramatic demonstration of the limits of the president's policy toward China.