ID | 162450 |
Title Proper | China’s Position on the Territorial Sea Regime in Terms of the South China Sea Disputes |
Other Title Information | Straight Baselines and Innocent Passage of Warships around Disputed Islands |
Language | ENG |
Author | Chang-Wee, Lee |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | China has a long coastline of approximately 18,000 kilometers and hence an extensive continental shelf as well as an EEZ. Its coastline is said to be the tenth longest coastline in the world. The total sea area in the China Seas is about 4.7 million square kilometers. Despite these advantageous circumstances in geography, China failed to become a maritime power like Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and the UK. So it remained a land power for a long time except when Zheng He, the great seafarer in Chinese history, led the greatest ocean-going fleets of the world of that time, sailing to the Pacific and Indian Oceans during the years of 1405–1433. As a result, China suffered foreign invasions several times from the sea, being defeated in the Opium War as well as at the Sino–Japanese War in the nineteenth century |
`In' analytical Note | Korean Journal of Defence Analysis Vol. 30, No.4; Dec 2018: p. 559-576
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Journal Source | Korean Journal of Defence Analysis Vol: 30 No 4 |
Key Words | Spratly Islands ; Territorial Sea ; Paracel Islands ; South China Sea Disputes ; U.S.–China Relations ; Innocent Passage of Warships |