3/30/2015
International Workshop on the Legal
Aspects of the Establishment of the
Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf
The South China Sea
China
Taiwan/ROC
Mainland and main island coasts
Disputed Islands in the South China Sea
Baselines (archipelagic, straight)
Archipelagic waters
Laos
Internal waters
Tokyo, 26 – 27 March 2015
12nm from baselines and islands
200nm from mainland coasts
200nm from mainland baselines
Overview of Maritime Claims in the
South China Sea
Thailand
200nm from Spratly, Thitu Island, Itu Aba
Island, Woody Island, Pratas Island, and
Scarborough Reef
Cambodia
Agreed boundaries
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Cambodia-Vietnam Joint Historic Waters Area
Thai-Malaysia Joint Development Area
Vietnam
Malaysia-Vietnam “Defined Area”
China-Vietnam Joint zone – Gulf of Tonkin
Leonardo Bernard
Philippines
Thai-Cambodia MOU
Chinese dashed line: 11, 9,10
Research Fellow, Centre for International Law
National University of Singapore
Philippine Treaty Limits “box”
Unilateral claims (Philippines’ KIG polygon)
Malaysia
Unilateral claims (Malaysia Map 1979)
Brunei
Unilateral claims (Brunei)
Malaysia-Brunei arrangement
Singapore
Malaysia
Unilateral claims (Indonesia’s EEZ)
Singaporean Claim from Pedra Branca
JMSU (China-Philippines-Vietnam)
ECS submissions (Malaysia and Vietnam,)
Indonesia
Vietnamese Blocks
Cable cutting by Chinese patrol boats
Indonesia
CNOOC Concession Blocks
China / Philippines / Vietnam/Taiwan /Malaysia
China / Philippines / Vietnam/Taiwan /Malaysia
Itu Aba / Taiping (Taiwan)
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Thitu Island (Philippines)
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Northeast Cay (Philippines)
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Flat Island(Philippines)
Nanshan Island (Philippines)
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Namyit Island (Vietnam)
Second Thomas Shoal
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Spratly Island (Vietnam)
Sin Cowe Island (27 Feb
2015)
(no more recent high resolution
archive
as at 17 March 2015)
Substantial harbour work (larger
than the original island)
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Cuarteron Reef
Scarborough Shoal
9°55’N, 115°32’E (reef above water at high tide in US map) Isolated atoll,
Closest potential island is Spratly Island, over 50nm away
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Cuarteron Reef
Johnson Reef Reclamation by China
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Johnson South Reef
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Fiery Cross Reef
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Gaven Reef
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Thanks for your Attention
Leonardo Bernard
Research Fellow, Centre for International Law
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.cil.nus.edu.sg
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