State-owned offshore oil and gas producer China National Offshore Oil Corp said Thursday that the company has discovered the first deep-water deep-stratum large gas field in the South China Sea.
The Chinese military is scheduled to carry out live-fire exercises in the South China Sea from Tuesday to Thursday, according to the Guangdong Provincial Maritime Safety Administration.
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday expounded on China's stance on the South China Sea issue and refuted the so-call concerns the United States has expressed over the issue.
Thanks to the joint efforts of China and ASEAN countries, the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea was formally signed in Phnom Penh in November 2002.
For years, the United States has played the role of troublemaker in the Asia-Pacific region, constantly making waves over regional maritime disputes to sow the seeds of conflict. Both the "pivot to Asia" strategy of the Barack Obama administration and the current "Indo-Pacific strategy" have been tailor-made for that purpose.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea. In 2002, representatives of the governments of China and the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations signed the DOC in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the first political document for China and the ASEAN countries to deal with the South China Sea issue at the regional level.
When Wang Aimin, then a professor of oceanic science at Hainan University, started helping with marine ranching by dropping artificial reefs into seawater in 2011, he was ridiculed by local divers.
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