POL340Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Nautical Mile, Exclusive Economic Zone, Overfishing
26 Apr 2017
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The south china sea arbitration (philippines v. china), permanent court of arbitration, pca. Chinese officials post-wwii: some islands contained within the ndl have been inhabited by chinese nationals. Issue 2: islands and rocks are some of the islands in the dispute area (spratly and paracel islands) part of the eez of china. Issue 3: china"s interference of philippine sovereignty rights. Rule: china doesn"t want to participate, pca says article 9 of unclos allows them to continue the case, china: Chinese claims were not historic, they were economic. There are no such thing as historic economic rights under unclos: the court decided that islands at issue are not islands at all, if they are islands you can draw baselines. Papal bull aeterni regis 1481 reference: pope declared the kings of portugal and castile had sovereignty over the islands off the coast of. Africa; was not enforced: columbus sails to the new world shortly after: dispute arises as such.
