East China Sea
Speech parts
1. East China Sea - Noun
2. East China Sea - Proper noun
Meaning
part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia
Source: WordNetSynonyms
Examples
Beijing and Tokyo face off more or less longitudinally across the East China Sea, where Japan claims China promised to warn them before the CPLAN entered the Miyako Strait, but China says they made no such promise.
China unilaterally establishes an air defense identification zone over the East China Sea that includes the airspace over the Senkakus.
In 2015 Sea Wings were deployed in the East China Sea, South China Sea and other waters of the western Pacific to complete observations of ocean phenomena including the Kuroshio Ocean Dynamic Processes spindle, eddies, and Nanhai Xi boundary flow.
Already, Japan has reinforced islands along the edge of the East China Sea, sought new regional allies, such as Australia and India, to balance China's power and, more recently, made a diplomatic push to reduce tensions with Beijing.
And the U.S. Government has repeated its defense obligation to protect the so-called Japanese administration over an island chain in the East China Sea, although its official stand is not to take a position on its sovereignty.
China is attempting to create a belief both among its own citizens and abroad that its transformation into a first-class military force is inexorable and its advance toward goals it has set in the South China Sea and the East China Sea is unstoppable.