Arbitration Case Of The Philippines Against China In Montgomery
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China reaffirmed its claim of sovereignty over the Zhongsha Islands in its 1992 Law on the territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone. China claims all the islands, reefs, and shoals within a U-shaped line in the South China Sea drawn in 1947 as its territory. Scarborough Shoal lies within this area.
Philippine stance Its position was that because most of the features in the South China Sea, such as most of the Spratly Islands, cannot sustain life, they cannot be given their own continental shelf as defined in the convention.
In 2016, the Philippines won the case, and the international court effectively invalidated the dash line. Beginning in 2015, China's People's Liberation Army Air Force began patrolling the South China Sea, including the disputed Paracel and Spratly Islands.
The Philippines claims the northeastern section of the Spratly Islands as the Kalayaan Island Group, in addition to the Scarborough Shoal, which it calls the Bajo de Masinloc. Malaysia claims part of the Kalayaan Island, while China and Taiwan claim the entirety of the island group.
West Philippine Sea (Filipino: Kanlurang Dagat ng Pilipinas; or Karagatang Kanlurang Pilipinas; abbreviated as WPS) is the designation by the government of the Philippines to the parts of the South China Sea that are included in the country's exclusive economic zone.
In 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration issued a decision confirming that the Philippines has sovereign rights over its 200 miles Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the West Philippine Sea.
- Consistent with the Constitution, the Philippines has sovereignty over all waters inside its archipelagic baselines as established by Republic Act No.
On July 12, 2016, the arbitral tribunal adjudicating the Philippines' case against China in the South China Sea ruled overwhelmingly in favor of the Philippines, determining that major elements of China's claim—including its nine-dash line, recent land reclamation activities, and other activities in Philippine waters— ...
In 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration issued a decision confirming that the Philippines has sovereign rights over its 200 miles Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the West Philippine Sea.
The Philippines' formal claims, and proclaimed so in a 1978 decree by President Marcos, on certain land features in the Spratlys islands group in the South China Sea, called the Kalayan (“Freedom” in Filipino) Group, have been made under the doctrine of Res nullius (ineffective sovereignty) and their geographical ...
