Abstract:
South China Sea is known with its rich natural resources such as oil and gas, and
fisheries. Philippine made its claim with the basis of UNCLOS and claimed what is in
the 200nm of the Economic Exclusive Zone (EEZ) in South China Sea dispute. In the
other hand, China claimed everything in South China Sea using historical rights. The
tension between Philippine and China started to rise in 1995 due to Mischief Incident.
In order to respond China.s territorial claim that is overlapping with Philippine,
Philippine started to address the issue in Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) in 1998 when Philippine became the Chairman of ASEAN. Philippine.s
responses brought result, it produced Declaration of Conduct (DoC), and later
developed into CoC (Code of Conduct) in 2002. Philippine also raised the claim case
to Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in 2013, in order to ensure that China.s
claim with the basis of historical rights over South China Sea is illegal. While so,
Philippine is also planning to increase the military quality by increasing the military
budget each year.
