Chapter 2075 South China Sea Dispute "Secretary, what's going on?" ”

Wei Ningsheng was taken aback and asked hurriedly, showing an extremely concerned expression. After dealing with Yoo Jun for more than a year, it was the first time he had seen such a grim look on Yoo Jun's face. Even when the 428 Fuqiang earthquake occurred, Liu Jun was extremely anxious, but it didn't seem to be as severe as it is now.

Liu Jun slowly put down the phone and said in a deep voice: "A fishing boat of the Haichang Fishery Company in Lingxi City was seized by the navy of An Langguo when it was fishing in the waters of Nansha. There were 20 workers on board, most of whom were from Lingxi City. And three more are"

Wei Ningsheng was furious and said: "How can this be true, Xisha is our territorial waters, why did they seize our fishing boats?" ”

The call was made by Zhang Weiguo, secretary of the Lingxi Municipal Party Committee. According to Zhang Weiguo's report, this was originally a fishing moratorium, but Haichang Fishery Company cooperated with Lingnan Ocean University to send a high-powered fishing boat to the South China Sea fishing area to explore tuna fish news.

Tuna is one of the most valuable fish in the international market, with an average price of more than 600 yuan per kilogram, and the most precious bluefin tuna is sold for nearly 2,000 yuan per kilogram.

For this purpose, Haichang Fishery Company has purchased a large number of advanced fishing equipment and converted a high-horsepower fishing boat for the use of this project team. This project has received strong support from the Lingxi municipal government and the fishery department, and it is the first time in China that fishing boats have been organized to go out to sea to explore for tuna. The fishery authorities of Lingxi City hope that through this voyage, they will carry out exploitative exploration and fishing for tuna longline fishing and light lure squid fishing in the Nansha waters, find a backup fishing ground, and explore the way for large-scale commercial fishing production, so as to realize the adjustment of the structure of the offshore fishery. If the trial fishing is successful, it will greatly improve the economic benefits of the fishing vessels, drive the transformation of fishing operations from the near sea to the open sea and the deep sea, and realize the optimization and upgrading of the fishery industry structure.

Lingxi City is an important fishery city in Province D, with exports exceeding $300 million last year, and the total output value of the fishery economy approaching the 10 billion yuan mark. Haichang Fishery Company is one of the fishing companies with the largest number of fishing vessels in the province, with hundreds of fishing vessels fishing in the open sea all year round. Lingxi City reported this test fishing plan to the provincial government, and Wei Ningsheng gave instructions and agreed to go to sea for trial fishing during the fishing moratorium.

Unexpectedly, he was seized by the navy of An Lang in the waters of Nansha.

"Secretary, you can't let them come nonsense!"

Wei Ningsheng said angrily.

Yoo Jun waved his hand lightly, lit a cigarette, and fell into deep thought.

Territorial disputes in the South China Sea have a long history.

China is one of the countries with the most Shanghai islands in the world. According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, coastal states have jurisdiction over the following six maritime areas: ports, inland seas, territorial seas, contiguous zones, exclusive economic zones, continental shelves, etc. According to this provision, China has nearly 3 million square kilometers of maritime territory.

Due to complex historical and practical reasons, nearly half of China's 3 million square kilometers of maritime rights and interests are disputed, and it is quite common for sea areas to be divided, islands and reefs to be occupied, and resources to be plundered. The "nine-dash line," the traditional maritime boundary drawn on China's territory, has existed in name only. China's eight maritime neighbors have all made unreasonable demands on China's maritime territory and rights and interests to varying degrees, with a total area of more than 1 million square kilometers of sea area.

The Nansha waters, where Haichang's distant-water fishing vessels tried to fish, are one of the areas disputed with Anlang.

Over the years, some countries surrounding the South China Sea have tried to actualize, legitimize, and internationalize the acts of encroachment on China's sovereignty in the South China Sea by means of actual control, domestic legislation, and international alliances. Some countries have tried their best to woo the United States into the water, hoping that the United States will intervene in the South China Sea issue. Indeed, the United States is pursuing a vague policy of "getting involved but not getting into" in order to reap the maximum benefits. In addition, Japan, India, Australia and other countries have also overtly or covertly touched the issue of the Strait in an attempt to fish in troubled waters.

The actions of not only the neighboring countries in the South China Sea, but also the major countries in the world in disputed islands and reefs, continental shelves, exclusive economic zones, and polar regions are not so much expressions of true intentions as they are more like exploiting loopholes in international law and the gaps in their future adjustment periods, in an attempt to seize the opportunity for their own "enclosure movement" through means such as "declaring without occupation" or "occupying without declaring". The dispute between Japan and South Korea over Dokdo (Takeshima in Japanese), the sudden change of "Okinotori Reef" to "Okinotorishima", the territorial claims of Britain and France to Antarctica, and the territorial sea claims of the United States and Russia to the Arctic are all typical examples.

Under the new regime of the law of the sea, eight of our maritime neighbours have also expanded their maritime jurisdiction claims, overlapping with ours. As a result, the dispute over sovereignty over the islands has become more complicated.

In order to stabilize and unite the overall situation, China has long followed the trend of peaceful settlement of international disputes, persisted in promoting the gradual settlement of island sovereignty disputes and maritime delimitation issues with its neighboring maritime neighbors through peaceful negotiations and friendly consultations, advocated joint development and cooperation in disputed maritime areas, and at the same time resolutely negotiated and struggled against the acts of relevant countries that infringed on China's sovereignty over islands and relevant maritime rights and interests.

In 2002, China and the 10 ASEAN countries signed the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea, emphasizing the need to jointly maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea, resolve differences by peaceful means, and refrain from taking actions that complicate disputes.

Based on the principle of maintaining regional stability and world peace, China has put forward a plan for shelving disputes and making joint development. Now, however, they are facing a very embarrassing situation -- instead of shelving disputes, some countries are shelving our own countries, putting them aside and developing them on their own. It can be seen from the relevant international jurisprudence of modern international law and the modern law of the sea that more and more attention is being paid to actual jurisdiction and control, while relative disregard is given to historical basis.

As a result, several neighboring maritime countries have seized our maritime territory and exercised de facto control over it.

However, China signed a maritime delimitation treaty with Anlang five years ago, and basically in the past few years, it has been relatively peaceful. The fishing operations of fishing vessels in disputed waters have also led to some disputes, but they have never resorted to such drastic measures as this time.

It seems that there are some other reasons for this, and it is estimated that Anlang wants to show favor to some big countries through this practice in exchange for benefits.

"Governor, please inform the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this situation immediately. I ask them to negotiate with An Langguo and release the seizure as soon as possible. ”

A cigarette was half smoked, Liu Jun said slowly, his frowning brows had been relaxed, and his tone was very calm.

Wei Ningsheng had also regained his composure and nodded.

In any case, when it comes to foreign disputes, you should be very cautious.

"In addition, I want Zhang Weiguo and them to go to Haichang Company to comfort the families of the fishermen, please rest assured that this matter will be successfully resolved."

Liu Jun admonished again.

"Okay."

Wei Ningsheng nodded in agreement.

……

"Dad, why did An Lang detain our fishing boat?"

On this day, Secretary Liu finished watching "News Network" and was about to go upstairs to the study to deal with some official business, Liu Yang, who was sitting on the sofa with him to watch "News Network", suddenly asked.

Recently, Liu Yang suddenly had this habit, accompanying Lao Tzu to watch "News Network", and when he watched it, he was generally silent and rarely asked, as if he could understand the content of the news. As a twelve- or thirteen-year-old boy who has just entered junior high school, Liu Yang's hobby is a bit special. Very few boys of this age would like to watch "News Network".

Maybe it's because of the influence of the family.

Unexpectedly, this time, Liu Yang suddenly opened his mouth to ask, and as soon as he asked, he asked about "Focus News".

Liu Jun was slightly stunned, and did not rush to answer his son's question, but asked with interest: "How do you know about this?" ”

Liu Yang glanced at his father strangely and said, "I said in the news broadcast two days ago that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has carried out a solemn crackdown. It's also available on the web. ”

Yoo Jun smiled a little embarrassedly. It seems that at home, my logical reasoning ability is not so rigorous, and I still have to ask such obvious things.

Liu Yang not only watches "News Network", but also often browses news pages on the Internet, as if he is a little "current affairs expert".

"Well, it's a complicated question......"

Liu Jun was not busy going to the study, so he roughly explained to his son on the sofa the origin of the territorial dispute in the South China Sea. Although the problem is more complicated, Secretary Liu is not perfunctory, and the key points are explained clearly.

"Dad, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is useless, people are not afraid at all...... Now there is a lot of noise on the Internet, saying why can't we send the navy to get the fishing boats back like the last Mingxia Island incident? ”

Liu Yang asked very seriously.

After Haichang's fishing vessel "D Yu 028" was unreasonably detained by the Anlang Navy, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately issued a solemn blow to An Langguo, stating that the "028" fishing boat was operating within China's territorial waters, and An Langguo's behavior was extremely wrong. They were asked to immediately release the seizure of the fishing vessel "D Yu 028".

However, the Anlang side claimed that the sea surface on which the fishing boats operated belonged to the territorial waters of the Anlang State, and that our fishing boats had violated their territorial waters and that the seizure of the fishing vessel "D Yu 028" was to safeguard the territorial sovereignty of the country.

"Yangyang, this problem is even more complicated. Mingxia Island is our territory, and the Guangfu is on Mingxia Island, and we can carry out rescue. Now that the fishing boats have been seized in the port of Anlang, we will send the navy to ask for it, and there will be a war. Liu Jun explained to his son very seriously: "War is a very serious matter, and we can't just go to war with other countries unless we have to." ”

Liu Yang nodded, indicating that he understood his father's words, but immediately asked, "In this case, they can detain our fishing boat, why don't we retaliate?" ”

Liu Jun couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, looked at his son, and nodded thoughtfully.