China's Deep-Sea Motivation for Claiming Sovereignty Over the South China Sea

At the lower part of the challenged waters lies an inventory of “rare earth minerals” significant to China's tech desires.

            Early this year, more than 200 Chinese marine volunteer army ships accumulated at Whitsun Reef in the Spratly Islands. Their essence was an unfavorable token of China's expectation to guarantee huge areas of the South China Sea, encased by the supposed "nine-run line," as its sovereign domain. Philippine authorities sounded the caution and emphasized the 2016 decision of a global arbitral council that prevented the legitimateness from getting China's past claims.....Read more