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To: KLP who wrote (281)	4/10/2001 12:33:36 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 2279

Karen... Do a search under "Law of the Sea Convention" and you'll find it... It designates a 200 mile economic zone from any coastal state (not in conflict with another coastal state), where that state has economic control over the use and exploitation of the area (fishing, mineral mining) . China signed and ratified it, but the US Senate has not passed it, so the US finds itself in the awkward position of having advocated the convention, but not signing it yet. But none of this has anything to do with the price of tea in China since it pertains ONLY to ships and vessels traversing those waters. It does not grant control over the airspace above the 200 mile economic zone, which still fall under the 1944 Chicago convention on International Civil Aviation. That convention declares that the territorial airspace is limited to 12 miles. That's why the entire Chinese position is ridiculous. The US will not, and can not, permit every various nation to dictate its own arbitrary airspace (like Libya tried to do with the Gulf of Sidra incident in the '80s). As you can see... I've been busy doing a little research on the matter (been arguing with some chinese folks about it elsewhere).

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