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2025-08-20 | BY Wang Tengfei
China has actively explored pathways for marine environmental protection and sustainable development. Since 1995, it has been the first to implement a summer fishing moratorium policy, concurrently conducting specialized enforcement actions to strictly maintain fishing order during the moratorium period. At 12:00 noon on May 1, 2025, the Yellow Sea, Bohai Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea regions of China officially entered the summer fishing moratorium period; By 12:00 PM on August 16, the three-and-a-half-month summer fishing moratorium in the South China Sea and parts of the East China Sea officially ended, with fishing vessels from provinces such as Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi gradually returning to port and resuming fishing operations. Over the past three decades, despite frequent external controversies and doubts, China has remained steadfast and unwavering, making significant contributions to the conservation of marine resources, ecological restoration, and the sustainable development of fisheries in the region.
2025-08-11 | BY Bao Yinan , Zheng Zhihua
This article will analyze the legal nature of the actions of the Xue Long 2 and the USCG aircraft involved in this incident. It will then examine the legal uncertainties surrounding the U.S. claim to an “extended continental shelf”, thereby revealing the “double standard” inherent in the U.S. authorities’ version of “freedom of the seas” and its nature of running counter to the international rule of law.
2025-07-12 | BY Zheng Zhihua
For the Philippines and its Western allies, the ruling was hailed as a triumph of “the rules-based international order.” Yet, for China and many others across the Global South, the award represents something far more problematic: a legal instrument cloaked in neutrality but rooted in a Eurocentric vision of international law. Rather than paving a path to peaceful settlement, the ruling has undermined the credibility of legal mechanisms under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), exacerbating regional tensions and entrenching mistrust.
2025-06-30 | BY SCSPI
The Spratly Islands sits in the southern part of the South China Sea, stretching from Marie Louise Bank in the north to James Shoal in the south, bordered by Vanguard Bank to the west and Seahorse Shoal to the east. It is China’s southernmost archipelago, comprising over 200 islands, reefs, shoals and sandbars. 6 parties—China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Chinese Taiwan—have made claims to all or part of the islands, with Vietnam occupying 29 features in total. Since the 1970s, Vietnam has continuously carried out reclamation activities on relevant features. A new wave of expansion projects has been witnessed after October 2021.
2025-06-21 | BY Bao Yinan
目前距离中菲两国有机会将南海部分争端提交到国际调解院尚有半年以上的时间。在这一“窗口期”内，两国完全应当通过外交渠道交换意见，试探运用国际调解院的调解机制解决部分争端的可能性。如果中国和菲律宾两国能够真诚地以缓和南海局势，共同打造安全、有序的南海海洋秩序为目的，尝试运用国际调解院的调解机制将是百利而无一弊的。国际调解院的调解机制完全可以作为中菲两国在谈判和法律方法之间寻求“中间性质”的和平解决争端方法的工具箱中值得认真考虑的一种。