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
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