What is this all about???

The South China

Sea Dispute

China’s rightful

claim or geopolitical

expansionism?

The Geopolitics of Oceans

Case Studies of Geopolitics

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,557487,00.html

UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

• EEZ’s have a large impact on management and conservation of resources.• Recognises rights to over 98million km2 • Those states can exploit all resources – fish, oil, gas etc• Almost 90% of all known oil reserves fall within EEZ’s• Up to 98% of worlds fishing zones fall within an EEZSource – Nagle and Cooke

Signed in 1982 but not enforced until 1992 this has been important in defining who owns what

Battle of the bias

You will work in pairs on this.

You are rival reporters and news readers for CCTV and

VTC

You will be writing and reading a short 2 minute news

article that summarises the recent troubles in the south

China Sea.

You need to introduce it with a recent incident in the

South China Seas that occured after the Chinese

brought their oil rig into the disputed waters.

You then need to state why your claim to the waters is

strongest (China or Vietnam).

Then you need to add some good biased writing about

the antagonistic actions of the other side….

You need to know and

explain the claims of your

country

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Some Resources

CCTV - english language TV

China Daily - English Language Newspaper

Vietnam News - English language Vietnamese paper

You will need to video

your news report and put

it on your eportfolio

Max 3 mins