China And South Korea Research Su Yanjiao Dispute

"The core of control the world is to control the market and resources. Theconnection to the world market and resources flowing process is the sea. Ocean wasand still is an important national political interests area for competition." Marinedevelopment and competition is one of the focuses of development of human societyin21century. The development of modern industry used a lot of the land resourcesmaking the global resources supply much more tension,"Marine has become the mostbasic part of the global life support system and is the biggest resource treasure for thesustainable development strategy to depend on", and the ocean become the importantresources support to promote world economic further development. Maintaining theMarine rights became the various imminent and difficult assignment for manycountries."The sea has never been put into the consideration of the China nationalsecurity ", Chinese must pay an important attention to it in the21st century.In the21st century, there are more and more disputes about Marine rightsbetween the countries all over the world. China also faced Marine rights and interestsand islands or reef disputes with many countries, one representative dispute of whichis the SuYan Rock dispute between China and South Korea. The SuYan Rock, whichis different from the dispute of Diaoyu Island and “Chong Bird” between China andJapan, and the ownership of South Sea Islands, is not bulge. But it is also an integralpart of China sacred ocean land. Moreover, SuYan Rock has huge economic valueand essential strategic position.SuYan Rock dispute between China and South Korea has a long history, and thehistorical origins of the dispute can date back to the "Syngman Rhee line"promulgated by the south Korean government in1950s. But the SuYan Rock disputebetween China and South Korea becoming clear is1970s and1980s. SuYan Rock andits near waters has been the fishing grounds for the fishermen in China coastalprovinces since ancient times, and since modern times, no country (including Japan,Korea) put forward to this object. until in1970, the Korean parliament passed “thedevelopment act of the underwater resources", which made SuYan Rock become the"fourth underwater development zone""illegally". This caused the outbreak of SuYanRock dispute between China and South Korea. The event aboute SuYan Rock disputeattracting Chinese government attaches importance to is the establishment of theso-called Marine observation platform on SuYan Rock by South Korea alone in1995.China said opposition in a statement, and ascended the dispute to the governmentagenda between the two countries.Firstly, the article has made the elaboration to the SuYan Rock’ basic conditionand the historical vein and reason of SuYan Rock dispute between China and SouthKorea; Next, the author has carried on the induction and analysised the dispute fromthe history and the international law angles about the ownership basis of SuYan Rockwhich held by China and South Korea, and has defined that the SuYan Rock was thereef not the island; And then, the author has also analysised the factors which hadgreat infuence on the solution of the SuYan Rock dispute between China; Finally, the author has attempted to put forward some methods to solve the dispute.The essence of the SuYan Rock dispute between China and South Korea is thetwo countries’ maritime delimitation issues involving the two countrie’s political,economic and security interests. SuYan Rock belongs to China from historic rights,and SuYan Rock lay in the the overlapping area of the two countries’ exclusiveeconomic zone by the International law of the sea. The SuYan Rock dispute is one ofthe important factors to influence the development of relations between China andSouth Korea. Overcoming the difficulty to solve the SuYan Rock dispute and shapingthe favorable environment to solve the SuYan Rock dispute are the task the twocountries have to face. The territorial dispute is ultimately to solve, political methodsand legal method is the important path selection to solve the SuYan Rock disputebetween China and South Korea.