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146. China, Law on the Exclusive Economic Zone and the Continental
Shelf, June 26, 1998, available from www.un.org/Depts/los/
LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/chn_1998_eez_act.pdf.
147. See the literature on China-Japan conflict over their efforts
to explore fossil resources in the disputed area.
148. See the first UN-sponsored survey and report by K. O.
Emery, Yoshikazu Hayashi, et al., “Geological Structure and Some
Water Characteristics of the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea,”
UNECAFE/CCOP Technical Bulletin, No. 2, 1969.
149. Victor Prescott and Clive Schofield, The Maritime Political
Boundaries of the World, 2nd Ed., Boston, MA: M. Nijhoff, 2005.
150. There is a vast literature on the Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute
and the disputed maritime delimitation between China and
Japan. China’s recommended reading is by Zhong Yan (钟严), “
论钓鱼岛主权的归属” (“On the Sovereign Ownership of Diaoyu
Dao”), 人民日报 (People’s Daily), October 18, 1996, available from
news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2004-03/26/content_1386025.htm. Japan’s
official stand is provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Japan, “The Basic View on the Sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands,”
“Q & A on the Senkaku Islands,” and “Recent Japan-China
Relations (October 2010),” available from www.mofa.go.jp/region/
asia-paci/senkaku/senkaku.html. The best U.S. public document is
the “Okinawa Reversion Treaty,” Hearings before the Committee
on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, 92 Cong., First Sess.,
October 27-29, 1971, Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing
Office, 1971.
151. The key U.S. document is “Civil Administration Proclamation
No. 27” about the geographical boundaries of the Ryukyu
Islands by the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu
Islands, Office of the Deputy Governor, APO 719, December 25,
1953.
152. U.S. Department of State, “Briefing by Secretary Clinton,
Japanese Foreign Minister Maehara,” Honolulu, HI, October 27,
2010. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen responding to Japanese
NHK News interview questions made the remarks that the
United States would support its ally Japan, and “we would fulfill
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