Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter One Dagongmei in the Context of Rural-urban Migration Processes in Contemporary China
- Chapter Two The Linguistic Features of Chinese Internet Language
- Chapter Three Chinese Contemporary Art: Between Market and Freedom
- Chapter Four The Modernization of the People's Liberation Army since 1978
- Chapter Five The Reduced Role of the People's Liberation Army in the Political Succession to Deng Xiaoping and to Jiang Zemin: Chinese Style Civilian-Military Relations in the Making
- Chapter Six Chinese Involvement in Southeast Asia on the Example of Myanmar
- Chapter Seven China's Energy Policy towards Central Asia and Russia
- Chapter Eight Sino-Japanese Dispute over the Seabed Oil and Gas Resources in the East China Sea
- Chapter Nine China's Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea
- Chapter Ten The Way to Hong Kong Handover and its Implications
Chapter Eight - Sino-Japanese Dispute over the Seabed Oil and Gas Resources in the East China Sea
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter One Dagongmei in the Context of Rural-urban Migration Processes in Contemporary China
- Chapter Two The Linguistic Features of Chinese Internet Language
- Chapter Three Chinese Contemporary Art: Between Market and Freedom
- Chapter Four The Modernization of the People's Liberation Army since 1978
- Chapter Five The Reduced Role of the People's Liberation Army in the Political Succession to Deng Xiaoping and to Jiang Zemin: Chinese Style Civilian-Military Relations in the Making
- Chapter Six Chinese Involvement in Southeast Asia on the Example of Myanmar
- Chapter Seven China's Energy Policy towards Central Asia and Russia
- Chapter Eight Sino-Japanese Dispute over the Seabed Oil and Gas Resources in the East China Sea
- Chapter Nine China's Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea
- Chapter Ten The Way to Hong Kong Handover and its Implications
Summary
East China Sea, together with the Yellow Sea and the South China Sea, is one of the three half-closed water basins, separating continental China from the Pacific Ocean. It is separated from the Pacific Ocean by the Ryukyu Archipelago; the Strait of Taiwan separates it from the South China Sea. To the north, it joins with the Yellow Sea, and through the Korean Strait, with the Sea of Japan. At its shores lie the three provinces of continental China: Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangsu. For many centuries it has been an important fishing area for its coastal countries, and is still important in terms of food security.
Between 1969 and 1970, rich oil and gas deposits of the East China Sea became a subject of interests of the countries lying at its shores. The claims were staked out by Japan, Okinawa (at that time being under the US administration), South Korea, and Taiwan. The unilateral claims were based on the Convention on the Continental Shelf, signed in Geneva in 1958, and they referred to 11 seabed petroleum blocks altogether. The four Japanese blocks and Okinawa's block were claimed by private oil interests, unlike South Korea's two and Taiwan's four which were claimed by the respective governments. Unilateral claims of Japan were supported by the so-called median principle, while Korea and Taiwan based on the natural prolongation of the shoreline principle. Inevitably, the claims overlapped one another to different extents.
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- China at the Beginning of the 21st Century , pp. 97 - 110Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2014