South China Sea/Related Articles

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Pacific Ocean [r]: the largest single mass of water in the world, lying between Asia and Australia on its west, and North America and South America on its east. ^[e]

Association of Southeast Asian Nations [r]: Add brief definition or description
Brunei [r]: Country in North Borneo. ^[e]
People's Republic of China [r]: A large, one-party state in East Asia; the most populous nation on Earth, third largest by area. ^[e]
Indonesia [r]: A country in Southeast Asia. ^[e]
Malaysia [r]: Country in Southeast Asia; a peninsula bordering Thailand and the northern one-third of the island of Borneo, Indonesia, Brunei, and the South China Sea; south of Vietnam ^[e]
Philippines [r]: A large, democratic nation of Southeast Asia, consisting of an archipelago of over 7,000 islands, with many cultures, religions and languages. ^[e]
Singapore [r]: Even though of tiny size, one of the world's most prosperous countries, a trading and transportation center of Southeast Asia, made up of islands between Malaysia and Indonesia. ^[e]
Vietnam [r]: A country in Southeast Asia, neighboring China, Laos, and Cambodia, and with seacoast on the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea. Now the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam, under a Communist government with a market economic system, it spawned from ancient kingdoms, was a colony called French Indochina, and was partitioned into the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) between 1954 and 1975. ^[e]

Fisheries monitoring surveillance and control [r]: The broadening of traditional enforcing national rules over fishing, to the support of the broader problem of fisheries management, from the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. ^[e]
Gulf of Thailand [r]: Add brief definition or description
International law enforcement [r]: The practice of cooperation, among nations, to deal with individuals or non-state criminal groups, through police and judicial agencies such as Interpol ^[e]
Operation ROLLING THUNDER [r]: Add brief definition or description
Piracy [r]: Violence against, or detention of, by private individuals, against aircraft or ships under national registry ^[e]
Petroleum [r]: Add brief definition or description
Safety of Life at Sea [r]: International convention defining safety requirements for ships ^[e]
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea [r]: Add brief definition or description
United States Seventh Fleet [r]: The forward-deployed forces of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps that operate in the western Pacific Ocean; a major operating command under United States Pacific Command ^[e]
Vietnam War [r]: Add brief definition or description