INR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Xi Jinping

• School: University of Florida
• Department: International Relations
• Course: INR 2001
• Professor: Nolan Richard

Document Summary

China has always been known for expanding, increasing, and growing in all aspects of their society. Their latest expansion has to do with them claiming ownership over 90% of the south china sea. It is a known fact that the law of the. Sea accesses any country to use the world"s oceans for business or environmental purposes. China, agreeing to this treaty, has gone ahead and started building multiple islands onto several reefs claiming it to be property of china. The right of freedom in international waters is exactly what they are forbidding other countries to express. The spratly islands chain has been taken over by china and the united. States does not plan on backing down to them anytime soon. On of the biggest factors that the media emphasizes on this issue is the fact that china has malicious intentions for the building of land on the reefs of the.