exclusive economic zone
noun
: the area of sea and seabed extending from the shore of a country claiming exclusive rights to it
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The most obvious example is ASEAN’s cautious approach on the South China Sea: despite Beijing’s increasingly aggressive actions in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone in the past year, the bloc has issued no statement calling China out by name.
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Lynn Kuok, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2024
On July 6, the Coast Guard while on patrol spotted four Chinese military ships north of the Amchitka Pass in the Aleutian Islands in international waters, but also within the U.S. exclusive economic zone, officials said.
—CBS News, 9 Aug. 2024
In the recent past, dozens of vessels, most of them from Spain, fished with the permission of the Moroccan government inside the African country’s exclusive economic zone.
—Ian Urbina, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
China has ignored the ruling: Manila says Beijing continues to send its maritime militia and coastguard vessels to Mischief Reef and Scarborough Shoal in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.
—Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 23 July 2024
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Lynn Kuok, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2024
On July 6, the Coast Guard while on patrol spotted four Chinese military ships north of the Amchitka Pass in the Aleutian Islands in international waters, but also within the U.S. exclusive economic zone, officials said.
—CBS News, 9 Aug. 2024
In the recent past, dozens of vessels, most of them from Spain, fished with the permission of the Moroccan government inside the African country’s exclusive economic zone.
—Ian Urbina, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
China has ignored the ruling: Manila says Beijing continues to send its maritime militia and coastguard vessels to Mischief Reef and Scarborough Shoal in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.
—Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 23 July 2024
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