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CCG 5901 is usually deployed in the South China Sea to enforce China's sovereignty claims over the disputed sea and its islands. [2] The vessel has been deployed near the Scarborough Shoal and the Second Thomas Shoal as well as the Philippines-controlled Thitu Island.
China claims “indisputable sovereignty” over almost all of the South China Sea, and most of the islands and sandbars within it, including many features that are hundreds of miles from mainland ...
The CCG-5901, dubbed the “monster ship”, ... China’s claims in the South China Sea overlap with those of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The disputed waterway is a ...
Instead of guarding, protecting, defending and saving, as a coast guard should do, China is attacking, intimidating, violating and threatening, writes Richard Timme. Opinion: China’s ‘monster ...
Many nation-states, with the exception of Singapore, possess overlapping territorial claims within the South China Sea, which are also at odds with China's claims. [1] China's maritime actions in the South China Sea include a broad range of measures, such as the deployment of maritime militias, [2] the coast guard, [3] and artificial land reclamation. [4]
The Chinese Ministry of Geological Resources and Mining estimated that the South China Sea may contain 17.7 billion barrels of crude oil, [117] compared to the oil rich country of Kuwait which has 13 billion barrels. In the years following the announcement by the PRC ministry, the claims regarding the South China Sea islands intensified.
The China coastguard's 165-meter 'monster ship' entered Manila's 200-nautical mile EEZ on July 2, spokesperson for the PCG Jay Tarriela told a news forum. ... in the South China Sea, and is meant ...
The Scarborough Shoal standoff is a dispute between the Philippines and the People's Republic of China over the Scarborough Shoal.Tensions began on April 8, 2012, after the attempted apprehension by the Philippine Navy of eight mainland Chinese fishing vessels near the shoal, [1] which resulted in the actual control of the atoll under China.