Choppy waters ahead in "a sea of peace cooperation and friendship"?: Slow progress towards the application of maritime joint development to the East China Sea

Clive H. Schofield and Ian Townsend-Gault

Marine Policy, 2011, vol. 35, issue 1, 25-33

Abstract: China and Japan's June 2008 agreement in principle on maritime cooperation in the East China Sea raised hopes of a significant breakthrough in the parties' complex and long-standing disputes in the area. Subsequent progress towards the realisation of a legally binding, formal treaty on, for example, offshore petroleum joint development has been slow to materialise. In fact, the area under dispute appears to have become more rather than less extensive. This paper examines competing maritime and sovereignty claims in the East China Sea together with progress towards maritime cooperation in the context of overlapping jurisdictional claims. The paper identifies some of the key challenges that need to be overcome in realizing a functioning joint resource management regime in the East China Sea.

Keywords: Joint; development; Maritime; delimitation; Law; of; the; sea; Equidistance; Natural; prolongation; Islands (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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