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Toggle open close While there is a widely accepted international law of the sea, reflected in the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the great powers of the world are divided over competing and, in some cases, incompatible, domestic maritime laws or interpretations of UNCLOS. The areas of disagreement extend to fundamental principles, such as which waters lie under a nation state’s jurisdiction and what it is entitled to do, and forbid, in those waters. Compounding the problem, some of the sharpest divisions have emerged between the world’s two increasingly antagonistic super...

To 200 nautical miles from their coastlines. the area in their coastlines. the area in the middle is regarded as international waters. but china stands alone in claiming all of the territory and its resources within its disputed nine dashed line, created after world war ii. george and jr fish at scarborough shoal. around 160 nautical miles from philippines and more than 400 nautical miles from china. it has its own territorial sea, but the philippines claimant has there is. vietnam also claims historical rights to fish there. china has been blockading the lagoon since 2012. george and his sonj...