The USCGCWilliam Hart has concluded a joint maritime patrol in the Cook Islands’ exclusive economic zone, where U.S ... To continue reading this article and to support our journalism ... .
In the EEZ, foreign ships may still navigate freely ... We cannot close the EEZ and call it our “air defense identification zone by right of sovereignty” just because the water lies within 200 nautical miles.
Rodante Marcoleta recently made the bold claim that we should “just give up” the Kalayaan IslandGroup, lamenting that it would be impossible to defend because it supposedly lies outside our exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Article 57 of Unclos — the provision that defines the EEZ — states ... It says only that no EEZ may go beyond that distance ... Not shown in the map is that our theoretical EEZ overlaps with the EEZs of Malaysia, Vietnam, and China.
Trolls attacked my two columns last week. “While aggressing our seas, China calls us troublemakers,” Jan. 28, and “Here’s why China is on military, propaganda offensive against Phl,” Jan. 30....