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2025-08-25 | BY Lei Xiaolu
On July 12, 2025, Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, proposed during the ASEAN-plus foreign ministers’ meetings in Kuala Lumpur that “a new narrative should be built for the South China Sea. We should not always associate the South China Sea with friction, conflict, or confrontation, but with peace, stability, and cooperation. This should become the mainstream narrative in the future.” The narrative of the South China Sea should mirror the situation in the region, yet for a long time, it has not objectively portrayed the reality. Instead, it has served as a tool for geopolitical maneuvering by external powers. Minister Wang’s proposal seeks to rectify the narrative of the South China Sea, transforming it from a distorted “funhouse mirror” into a clear mirror that guides the region towards peace, stability and cooperation.
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.
2025-07-09 | BY Yu Minna
Over the past 70 years, China’s role and contributions in safeguarding maritime safety in the South China Sea have been widely recognized. Especially in the past decade, China has made steady and commensurate contributions through initiatives such as providing intelligent navigation services, strengthening maritime disaster prevention and mitigation, developing an integrated sea-air search and rescue system, and deepening international cooperation against transnational maritime crimes.