UNCLOS.
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The international treaty governing maritime boundaries.
Underlies every China-Philippines dispute and every Strait closure threat.
Why it matters: Maritime news is meaningless without it. Shipping insurance, FONOPS, sovereignty claims all run through UNCLOS.
Technical and plain English.
UNCLOS. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Codifies international maritime law including: territorial waters (12 nautical miles), contiguous zones (24 nm), exclusive economic zones (200 nm), continental shelf rights, freedom of navigation in international waters, deep seabed mining authority, and dispute resolution through ITLOS. Adopted 1982, in force 1994. Ratified by 169 states; the United States has signed but not ratified.
The big international treaty that says who owns which ocean waters. Your country owns 12 nautical miles of water from your coast (territorial). You can fish and drill in 200 nautical miles (economic zone). Everything beyond that is international waters, open to all ships. Almost every country signed it. The US signed but the Senate never ratified it, which is awkward because the US Navy often acts as if they did.
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