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29 Mar 2022, 7:45 pm
China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800. [read post]
27 Oct 2019, 7:00 am
Daniel Byman *** The Arctic, a sprawling 5.5-million-square-mile region sandwiched between the United States and Russia, has become a site of geopolitical tension as rising temperatures thaw massive ice chunks that previously impeded navigation. [read post]
12 Jul 2016, 8:28 am
A “rock” is entitled to a territorial sea no greater than 12 nautical miles, but not an EEZ. [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 9:56 am
Crucially, each of the many trans-Eurasian rail lines that are part of this mammoth project will be accompanied by fiber-optic cables carrying impossibly huge amounts of data across thousands of miles without delay. [read post]
15 Jul 2016, 6:23 am
Nonetheless, by declaring illegal straight baselines, China has claimed thousands of square nautical miles (nm) of territorial sea that should remain international waters and a significant amount of area as internal waters that should be territorial seas. [read post]
9 Mar 2019, 12:42 pm
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) – which China is party to, but the U.S. is not – does recognize the 12 nautical mile sovereignty zone. [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 7:38 am
China has even redrawn its claim lines in the past, encroaching thousands of square miles further into India. [read post]
18 Jan 2013, 8:37 am
Looks like China is creating an entire theme park based on Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. [read post]
13 Jul 2016, 6:05 am
” This means that most of the land features, including several upon which China has built artificial islands, do not even entitle China to claim a 12 nautical mile territorial sea. [read post]
12 May 2014, 9:49 am
China is planning to build a train line that would, in theory, connect Beijing to the United States. [read post]
25 May 2017, 4:16 am
According to news reports quoting unnamed U.S. government officials, the USS Dewey, a guided missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of a Chinese artificial island constructed on Mischief Reef in the South China Sea. [read post]
5 Feb 2016, 7:25 am
” Under UNCLOS, islands are entitled to a 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone and a continental shelf, whereas rocks only provide a twelve-nautical-mile territorial limit. [read post]
17 Feb 2021, 11:47 am
In 2011 and 2012, while Xi was vice president of China and Biden was vice president of the United States, the two men spent more than 24 hours in private meetings and traveled 17,000 miles together. [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 12:36 pm
He noted that the 2016 Hague ruling on Philippine-China maritime disputes stated that the bank was within the Philippine’s 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ). [read post]
23 Nov 2021, 1:23 pm
Japan claims only three nautical miles of territorial seas from the shores of both Honshu and Hokkaido, which makes a six-mile-wide international waters passage through the center of the strait. [read post]
29 Oct 2021, 8:23 am
Was the Pentagon covering up the Chinese launch in order to avoid difficulties with China? [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 6:00 am
In Vanuatu The Sydney Morning Herald reported on April 9 that China has proposed building a permanent military base in the South Pacific islands of Vanuatu, approximately 1,200 miles northeast of Australia. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 6:00 pm
In its case, the Philippines is making three primary claims, all related to maritime jurisdiction: first, that Beijing claims more of the South China Sea’s waters than the Convention permits; second, and relatedly, that China has claimed 200-nautical-mile EEZs for a number of insular features not entitled to them; and third, that China has violated other rights guaranteed to the Philippines by UNCLOS. [read post]
24 Jul 2018, 11:10 am
Sri Lanka A recent analysis from the New York Times delves into the details of how China forced Sri Lanka to hand over the Hambantona Port Development Project, strategically located a few hundred miles off the coast of India, in an example of what some critics of China have called a “debt trap” As part of the Belt and Road Initiative, the Chinese government bank had financed the port with loans totaling approximately $1 billion, on the condition that it be… [read post]
11 May 2016, 10:34 am
Like its two previous operations, the FONOP was carried out by a destroyer that sailed within 12 nautical miles of a land feature, and it was conducted under the rules of “innocent passage. [read post]
