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Originally Posted by Marcus H.
and a handful of ASEAN nations have their problems with China taking their territorial waters.
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You have to separate between territorial waters and EEZs. Nearly all of the disputes and violations are about the EEZs. There's too much throwing together of territorial waters and EEZ. For example, the Philippines do not possess any recognised territorial waters in the area of the Spratly Islands. Their EEZ generated by Palawan though (under the assumption that none of the Spratly Islands generate a recognised EEZ) encompass some of the area of the the Spratly group.