Wednesday 13 July 2016

CHINA VS THE WORLD.

 The South China seed has been an apple of discord for so long and the recent judgement in the issue has just again made the issue plunge back into popularity around the world's shores. Actually the history of South China sea dates back to a huge history (not certainly a Chinese history.) China's claim over the South China sea as being a historic part of China have always belied from verifying China's alleged historic claims over the South China sea waters.  For instance, China's claim that the name of South China Sea itself signifies Chinese authority over the water is worth derision because, if such things would have been there, India would have long taken up the whole of Indian ocean.

China's claims over the sea have been condemned strongly by almost all the nations around the world. China's use of active navy in the area and also its increasing military activity in the area have just been conducive to excessive tensions in the area pulling all the nations around the South China sea, near to the epoch of an Asian cold war over the sea's waters. 

The South China Sea is a party of pacific ocean spreading over a whopping 3,500,000 square kilometers. The area's important outshines that of any other nearby faction of water body as almost one-third of the ships sailing through water around the world pass through the South China sea and moreover exaggerating and incrementing the vitality of the area is its huge oil deposits beneath the ocean bed. 

The minute South China Sea Islands, collectively an archipelago, number in the hundreds. The sea and its mostly uninhabited islands are subject to competing claims of sovereignty by several countries. These claims are also reflected in the variety of names used for the islands and the sea.

Now due to the huge significance of this water body, various countries having their shore touching its water left no stone unturned in taking full advantage of the South China Sea's waters and hence this bone of contention got involved so many players including People's Republic of China, Republic of China, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore. 

Now before long, the tussle between all these countries had no official existence in any registered international court of law  but after harassed by the continuous belligerent and antipathetic military actions by People's Republic of China owning to its superlative military power the Philippines moved to the International Court in Hague, backed by United Nations, in order to settle the dispute again China's fallacious ownership of around 85% South China Sea. 

Now an international tribunal in Hague has ruled in favor of the Philippines and have upbraided China's false assertions over the South China Sea and its bellicose attitude towards other nations. Though China had abjured the court panel from the very beginning and had boycotted the proceedings but still the decision in the court is a decisive victory for the Philippines and a huge backlash for China as this judgement has given wings to all other countries so as clip China's growing feather's in the territory.

The tribunal also ruled out any of China's right in order to construct artificial land in the territory (which China has already done, usurping upto 300 acres of land) and has also debarred China from militarizing the land. But China has rebuked the panel's integrity and has also questioned the tribunal's authority over China. 

China's Ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai, accused the tribunal of "professional incompetence" and "questionable integrity." Speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, he accused the United States of engaging in military exercises that constituted "military coercion."

This move has also engendered huge confidence in other countries vying for rights in the territory because as the tribunal has quashed the existence of nine-dash Chinese line, other countries claim in the sea have also been emboldened giving a tough perspiration to China's false 'historic' claims over the territory.

Though the tribunal has given a landmark judgment but still as China has  officials renounced and denounced the trial, a lot more remains for further speculations. 

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

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