Competing Claims. The Disputes In The Scs Have Evolved

Competing Claims The disputes in the SCS have evolved over decades and engage multiple regional states that have territorial claims in the South China Sea including China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, and Taiwan. While not located directly in the region the United States, Australia, Japan, and India all hold economic, territorial, and security concerns over the disputes. Specifically, the United States has been involved in the territorial disputes to uphold maritime security laws and freedom of navigation. The main contended island groups in the SCS include the Pratas, Spratlys, Paracels Islands, and the Scarborough Shoal, all claimed by China. The Philippines claims the Scarborough Shoal and a few of the Spratlys, while†¦show more content†¦The Spratly Islands are also at the geographic center of the competing claims in the SCS. Many of the islands are uninhabited, but this has led some nations to establish settlements on islands to strengthen their claims. In as much as China’s increasingly assertive claims in the South China Sea to various islands are a way to bolster their reach territorially for rights related to fishing and other resource rights, but more importantly they also extend beyond that to exhibit China’s global ambitions. China does this by using their claimed territory to build and bolster military outposts with the creation of airfields, thereby exerting their presence of control in the region. International Norms that Shape the Disputes The disputes in the SCS are subjugated to set of international norms which influence the response made by states towards competing assertions of sovereignty over territory. UNCLOS is an essential component in determining states’ claims in the SCS as it â€Å"establishes a legal framework to govern all uses of the oceans† (Beckman, 2013, p. 1). 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