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11 Citation Mar 14, 2009 Military, Politics Kudos to President Obama (he?s ?President Obama? when he does the right thing, ?Hope ?n Change? at all other times). He?s ordered the USS Chung-Hoon to protect the USNS Impeccable as she goes about her business in the South China Sea. Chung-Hoon is an Aegis-equipped destroyer of the Burke class. His response is far better than President Bush?s wimpy reaction to the P-3 knockdown incident in 2001.By now we know about the serious Chinese harassment of Impeccabl, technorati.com
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RI secures more territory through diplomacy: FM 1 Citation Lilian Budianto, THE JAKARTA POST , BANDUNG | Thu, 03/19/2009 10:49 AM Despite pressure from powerful international countries, Indonesia had managed to secure itself additional marine territory, expanding the archipelago considerably through persuasive diplomacy, said Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda. ?Through persuasive arguments, Indonesia has not only maintained its existing territory but widened it to 6.2 million square kilometers by expanding our, technorati.com
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Some Thoughts on UNCLOS and Customary International Law 1 Citation Last Monday, the Boston Globe published an editorial supporting ratification of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The authors, CAPT Melissa Bert of the Coast Guard and Mark Schlakman, had fantastic timing: UNCLOS has been very much in the news. In August, 2007, Russia placed its national flag on the seabed near the North Pole, setting off feverish discussions concerning sovereignty and transit rights in the Arctic. And, of course, China made UNCLOS the centerpiece of its c, technorati.com
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Chinese general warns of more territorial disputes 1 Citation The Jakarta Post , The Associated Press | Mon, 03/30/2009 2:13 PM The global financial crisis is increasing competition for marine resources and could aggravate territorial disputes in the South China Sea, a Chinese general said Monday. Along with rich fishing grounds, the South China Sea is believed to have large oil and natural gas reserves. The disputed island groups also straddle busy sea lanes that are a crucial to China's economy. China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei, technorati.com
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1 Citation Mar 14, 2009 Military, Politics Kudos to President Obama (he?s ?President Obama? when he does the right thing). He?s ordered the USS Chung-Hoon to protect the USNS Impeccable as she goes about her business in the South China Sea. Chung-Hoon is an Aegis-equipped destroyer of the Burke class. This is far better than President Bush?s wimpy response to the P-3 knockdown incident in 2001.By now we know about the serious Chinese harassment of Impeccable last weekend in the South China Sea, even, technorati.com
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Buzzwords: Economic Exclusion Zone 1 Citation Buzzwords appears each Friday on the Wide Angle blog and breaks down the lingo, jargon and hot topics of the world?s headlines. Erin Chapman In the recent standoff between five Chinese naval vessels and the U.S. surveillance ship, Impeccable, China claims that the Americans violated their ? economic exclusion zone ? (EEZ). What exactly is an EEZ? Most importantly, will it preclude my involvement in the high-stakes baccarat and unregulated monkey knife fights on international wat, technorati.com
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1 Citation With the Northwest Passage opening up due to a changing climate and several nations challenging Canadian sovereignty over it, the importance of RADARSAT-2 in regards to Arctic sovereignty is obvious. Some argue that Canada?s resources are insufficient to the challenges posed by monitoring such a vast territory and enforcing Arctic sovereignty. The ability to monitor ships and map the presence and thickness of ice from space is a powerul and necessary complement to Canadian Coast Guard, technorati.com
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1 Citation The new bill that will be signed into law by the president , which will be submitted to the United Nations before May 2009 as part of the requirement of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), classified the Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) and Scarborough Shoal as ?regime of islands? in conformity to Article 121 of the convention than as archipelagic territory of the Republic of the Philippines. The bill amends and redefines the declaration of President Ferdinand Marcos in June 1978 throu, technorati.com
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MoU to net illegal fishing boats 1 Citation Mustaqim Adamrah, THE JAKARTA POST , JAKARTA | Thu, 02/26/2009 10:43 AM Being a maritime country with abundant sea resources has apparently made Indonesian waters very attractive to illegal fishing boats. With fish poaching having become a threat to the state, Indonesia and Thailand are working on a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will require cooperation between firms from both countries in the fisheries sector. ?In our experience, all this time,, technorati.com
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Void new baselines law, urge constitutional law experts 1 Citation by Tessa Jamandre VERA Files International law and constitutional law experts are set to ask the Supreme Court on Wednesday to nullify the three-week-old Archipelagic Baselines Law, barely a month before the May 13 deadline for the Philippine government to submit to the United Nations its claim over its extended continental shelf under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Saying Repubic Act No. 9522 ?dismembers a portion of the territory of the Philippines, in violation of the Constitu, technorati.com
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