Mô tả
Dr. Le Quy Quynh, Director General, Maritime Affairs Department, National Boundary Commission, Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The South China Sea has strategic importance to not only countries surrounding the sea but also other countries in the world. Because of its important geo-political location, the South China Sea has became one of the hottest spots in the world with conflicting claims over land features and maritime spaces. Most of the nations would like to maximize their maritime claims from a territory, it leads to the fact that there exist the conflicting maritime claims. In the South China Sea, the claims of coastal states overlap with that of each other and therefore, the areas formed by these claims need to be delimited or agreed for joint development. However, the claims must based on the principle “the land dominates the sea” and must be mutually accepted by the other states as the legally reasonable claims. This article will review current issues of the delimitation and joint development in the South China Sea.
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