{"id":18626,"date":"2023-12-26T02:56:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18626"},"modified":"2025-04-05T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:35:27","slug":"scs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/scs\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About South China Sea<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0arm of the western Pacific Ocean that\u00a0borders the Southeast Asian mainland.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It embraces an area of about 1,423,000 square miles (3,685,000 square km), with a mean depth of 3,976 feet (1,212 metres).<\/li>\n<li>Boundaries:\n<ul>\n<li>It is bordered by\u00a0China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia,\u00a0Brunei, and Vietnam.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0southern boundary of the South China Sea is a rise in the seabed between Sumatra and Borneo, and the\u00a0northern boundary stretches from the northernmost point of\u00a0Taiwan to the coast of Fujian province, China,\u00a0in the\u00a0Taiwan Strait.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0connected by the Taiwan Strait with the East China Sea and\u00a0by the Luzon Strait\u00a0with the Philippine\u00a0Sea (both marginal seas of the Pacific Ocean).<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0South\u00a0China Sea and the East China Sea together form the China Sea.<\/li>\n<li>The two\u00a0major archipelagos are known as\u00a0the Paracel Islands, controlled by China, and the\u00a0Spratly Islands.<\/li>\n<li>Climate: The weather in the sea is\u00a0tropical and largely\u00a0controlled by monsoons.<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0second most used sea lane in the world. It is a significant trade route for crude oil from the Persian Gulf and Africa through the Strait of Malacca to Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Major Ports: Hong Kong, Singapore, and Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the South China Sea dispute?<\/h3>\n<p>The South China Sea disputes refer mainly to those over delimitation regarding islands and reefs in the South China Sea as well as adjacent waters. Claimants include China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/china-warns-rocket-remnants-hit-south-china-sea-maritime-safety-authority-2023-12-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>China warns rocket remnants to hit South China Sea<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South China Sea is an arm of the western Pacific Ocean that borders the Southeast Asian mainland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}