CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Territorial disputes in the South China Sea involve conflicting island and maritime claims in the region by several sovereign states, namely Brunei, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Taiwan (Republic of China/ROC), Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Vietnam.

Detailed explanation-2: -The conflict between China and the Philippines in the Western Philippine Sea (a.k.a. the South China Sea) is the result of years of territorial dispute over the Spratly Islands – a group of 7, 500 islands and reefs that multiple countries have claimed as their own.

Detailed explanation-3: -The territorial disputes in Southeast Asia consist of the following disputes. The Philippines’ Sabah Claim, the Ligitan and Sipidan dispute, The Pedra Branca dispute and the South China Sea Conflict Zone also known as the Spartly Islands disputes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Vietnam and China are involved in several disputes in the South China Sea. The first dispute and also the least serious one is the maritime boundary dispute in the mouth of the Gulf of Tonkin. The second dispute concerns sovereignty over the Paracel Islands, which China took over by force from South Vietnam in 1974.