The Chinese mainland's coasts are surrounded by the Bohai sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China sea and the South China sea.

This big ship here was the one sailed in by Zheng He in the early 15th century on his great voyages around the South China Sea, the East China Sea and across the Indian Ocean to East Africa.

Then it will be easy. There's a passage under the waterfall leading to the East China Sea Dragon's Palace.

Peace in the South China Sea is crucial to peace and prosperity in East Asia. The Philippines encourages all parties concerned to scrupulously observe the principles contained in the ASEAN Declaration on the South China Sea of 1992.

Territorial disputes have exacerbated these tensions significantly. China challenges Japanese control over more than seven square kilometers of islets called the Senkaku Islands in Japan, and the Diaoyu Islands in China in the East China Sea.

such agreements, including an agreement between China and Japan for joint exploration and development of an island group in the East China Sea . This description is at variance with the facts.

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This partly explains the current tensions between China and Japan over their conflicting territorial claims to islands in the East China Sea, which occupy an area of only seven square kilometers, but are surrounded by rich hydrocarbon reserves. Disputes in the South China Sea involving China and five of its neighbors, and in southern Asia, are equally resource driven.

A longer term concern is the rise of China an economic and demographic powerhouse whose expanding military capacity has enabled it to take an increasingly assertive stance in territorial disputes, including with Japan in the East China Sea. China s territorial ambitions are also fueling tensions in the South China Sea, where sea lanes that are vital to Japanese trade are located.

Avoiding Conflict in the South China Sea

Tensions are also running high in the East China Sea, where the two countries dispute sovereignty over a number of islands. China is exploring gas fields close to the border as defined by Japan.

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He was a hero in the China Sea.

Ties between China and Japan, Asia's two largest economies, have been strained of late after a growing number of Chinese coastguard and other government ships sailed near disputed islets in the East China Sea, called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.

Hong Kong (China), China, Singapore and Taiwan Province of China are all among the top 10 recorded investors in South, East and South East Asia (table 3).

Regarding the South China Sea the Bien Dong Sea the Thirty eighth ASEAN Ministerial Meeting, held in Vientiane last July, continued to reaffirm the importance of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea the Bien Dong Sea as an important step towards a regional code of conduct in the South China Sea.

China s growing power has actually reinforced Japanese dependence on the US for its security. Japan s main worry is that the US may not wish to risk a war with China over territorial disputes in the East China Sea.

There is a growing risk that the new Chinese leadership will interpret a heavier US presence in the region as an attempt to contain China s rise and stunt its growth. We have already seen a series of worrisome confrontations in the region, pitting China against Vietnam and the Philippines in the South China Sea, and against Japan in the East China Sea.

The Indo Pacific is one geopolitical area, the official reportedly said, but look at the situation in the Indian Ocean. The situation near China, whether in the East China Sea, near Japan, or in the West Pacific, is completely different.

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And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth jeshimoth and from the south, under Ashdoth pisgah

Today, we have the ASEAN China Declaration on the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea.

But the US took a strong stand that the South China Sea, which includes important sea lanes for oil shipments from the Middle East and container ships from Europe, and over which military and commercial aircraft routinely fly, was subject to the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty (UNCLOS).

U.S. warships approached the South China Sea islands and reefs again

MADRID Today, great power competition is a fact The United States now competes with an increasingly active Russia and a rising China. The Middle East, the South China Sea, and Ukraine are just three theaters where this new reality is playing out.

The areas most affected by pirates and armed robbers continued to be the same areas, i.e., the South China Sea, Strait of Malacca, Indian Ocean, East and West Africa and South America.

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Civil society has helped transform the South China Sea from waters of contention to a sea of peace and cooperation.

The Arab Middle East takes a decisive turn towards authoritarian Islamic states. In Asia, economic strife between the US and China spills over into military conflict, with increasingly frequent naval clashes in the South China Sea threatening to erupt into a full scale war.

In recent years, China has become increasingly assertive in its territorial disputes with Japan and other countries around the South China Sea. Indeed, Chinese leaders claim the South China Sea and the Yellow Sea as core national interests and openly express displeasure at the presence of US naval forces in these waters.

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For example, it will not consider resolving in an international forum its dispute with Japan in the East China Sea over the Diaoyu Islands (called the Senkaku Islands in Japan). International law, China understands, is a double edged sword that can be used against China in other territorial disputes, or even in its domestic affairs.

China supports efforts towards establishing the Middle East Nuclear Weapon Free Zone

Hatoyama was naïve enough to declare publicly his intention of turning the East China Sea into a Chinese led Sea of Fraternity. He also earned the distrust of the United States, Japan s most important ally, by advocating the relocation outside Japan of a US air base on Okinawa.

He was talking about you... like you were the hero in the China Sea.

At this time, hard work between China and ASEAN has led to continued improvement in the situation in the South China Sea.

55 The case studies are the Dnipro River Basin, Caspian Sea, South China Sea, Lake Tanganyika, Benguela Current and Bermejo River strategic action programmes.

Now, the widening rift between the US and Japan has become starkly apparent. Abe feels let down by Obama s decision not to take a firm stand on the ADIZ  the latest in a series of aggressive moves by China to upend the status quo in the East China Sea.

NEW YORK One way to look at the growing military tensions over a few tiny islands in the East China Sea is to see in recent events a straightforward case of power politics. China is rising, Japan is in the economic doldrums, and the Korean peninsula remains divided.

Also vital to the new strategy are two prospective modern day Silk Roads an overland route through Central Asia to the Black Sea and a Maritime Silk Road by which shipping will pass from the South China Sea, through the Strait of Malacca, across the Indian Ocean to East Africa, and from there through the Red Sea into the eastern Mediterranean.

Other satellite centres are planned in Latin America, China and the Middle East.

After laying claim to 80 of the South China Sea, it has just established a so called air defense identification zone in the East China Sea, raising the odds of armed conflict with Japan and threatening the principle of freedom of navigation of the seas and skies. Meanwhile, the People s Republic continues to nibble furtively at territory across the long, disputed Himalayan border with India.

In a bid to broaden its core interests, China soon began to provoke territorial disputes with several of its neighbors. Last year, China formally staked a claim under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to more than 80 of the South China Sea.