US Lays Out Most Detailed Case Yet Against “Unlawful” China Maritime Claims
WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday put the most detailed kasing rather than the "violating law" of Beijing in the South China Sea, rejecting a geographical and historic basis for a wide and broken map.
In a 47-page research paper, the state and environmental and environmental and scientific samudra bureau said China did not have the basis in international law for claims that had placed Beijing on a collision course with the Philippines, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries.
"The overall effect of this maritime claim is that the PRC is illegally claiming sovereignty or some form of exclusive jurisdiction over most of the South China Sea," said this paper, referring to the People's Republic of China.
"This claim is very damaging the rules of the law in the oceans and many univ...