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He then examines the established international law with regard to territorial and boundary disputes as revealed by the practice of the International Court of Justice, and then, following an analysis of the challenges and opportunities in convincing China to submit to adjudication, reviews the cases of the Sino-Japanese disputes in the East China Sea, the disputes over the Spratly Islands, and the Sino-Indian border disputes.

Despite growing economic ties, relations between the Philippines and China have been marred by conflicting territorial claims over such areas as the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

He criticized China's policies in Tibet and the Spratly islands.

Although the Philippine-claimed Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal are now outside the country's archipelagic baselines, the law stipulates the disputed islands and shoal will remain ''under the sovereignty or territorial claim'' of the Philippines.

The Beijing News said the vessel would conduct patrols of what it called China's exclusive maritime zone in the disputed waters surrounding the Paracel and Spratly Islands.

jpg ) The Spratly Islands archipelago of about 100 reefs, islets and islands occupies less than five square kilometres and spread over more than 400,000 square kilometres of sea between the Philippines and Vietnam.

Managing the South China Sea is complicated by the fact that at its heart lie the Spratly islands, which are claimed in full or in part by Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.

There's also an entry for the Spratly Islands, whose ownership remains to be resolved.