Tensions in the Yellow Sea, known in South Korea as the West Sea, have been heightened by large-scale Chinese fishing operations within South Korea's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), where maritime ...

Since 2001, South Korea and China have observed a maritime agreement designating a provisional zone in the Yellow Sea, where a maritime boundary remains undefined. Under this agreement, both sides ...

One of the permanent installations China has constructed in the area of China and South Korea’s overlapping EEZ claims in the Yellow/West Sea, Feb. 26, 2025. Credit: Korea Institute of Ocean ...

South Korea has deployed a large stationary floating platform in a disputed section of the Yellow Sea, escalating tensions with China over a contested maritime zone where both countries' exclusive ...

Produced by Andy Court and Jacqueline Williams. Associate producer, Annabelle Hanflig. Broadcast associates, Katie Jahns. Edited by Sean Kelly. Ship on the South China Sea© 60 Minutes / Credit ...

China has been extending its reach in the South China Sea by building artificial islands atop reefs. China's claims over these islands is unlawful and many countries are fighting back.

China claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea, including parts of the exclusive economic zones of Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Vietnam. In 2016, an international ...

China and the Philippines accused each other on Tuesday of dangerous manoeuvres in a hotly disputed shoal in the South China Sea, in the latest confrontation over the waterway.

There’s another way to tackle China’s exclusion of Filipino fisherfolk from the South China Sea: cutting off its access to the Philippine seafood market.

That's well within the Philippines' 200-nautical-mile (230-mile) exclusive economic zone, where Manila alone is entitled to fishing and natural resource management rights under international law.