The economic zones extend some 200 miles from coasts and can be used for fishing, mining and harvesting other deep-sea resources. The convention states that nations can claim territorial seas stretching 12 nautical miles from their coasts, including islands, but excluding rocks and submerged features. Vietnam has claimed the Paracels are within its exclusive economic zone, an area designated under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The tribunal ruled that “there was no legal basis for China to claim historic rights to resources within the sea areas falling within the ‘Nine-Dash Line.’”Ĭhina‘s government rejected the findings and continues to insist most of the South China Sea is its sovereign maritime territory. In 2016, the Netherlands-based Permanent Court of Arbitration rejected China‘s claims to owning 90% of the South China Sea, in a case brought by the Philippines in 2013. Vietnam, for at least a decade, has been locked in a maritime dispute with China over the Paracel Islands which both nations claim as their territory. Sony, however, rejected Chinese censors’ demands last year to remove the Statue of Liberty from a scene in “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” Studio executives were eager for the revenue that could be gained in China but rejected changes to the climactic scene. Sony Pictures also gave in to Chinese government pressure in making changes to the 2014 film “Robocop” and the 2012 film “Red Dawn.” worked closely with Chinese authorities for the remake of the 2020 movie “Mulan,” based on an original Chinese tale. “The resulting financial influence has given Chinese film studios the placement and access necessary to change the content of American films, while forcing American film studios to self-censor to appease Beijing’s sensibilities,” the report by Army Maj. Hollywood established financial ties to the Chinese film industry, one of the world’s largest movie markets, years ago and the ties have been used as leverage by the Chinese Communist Party, the report said. A report by two Army officers published by the Naval Postgraduate School concluded that China‘s market clout is influencing Hollywood studios and the government is using American films to promote communist propaganda as part of a larger strategy seeking global hegemony.
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