Scarborough Shoal, a cluster of coral reefs and islets...
It lies well within a 200-nautical-miles "exclusive economic zone" provided for by the United Nations Convention on "The Law of Sea". But China - which claims most of the South China Sea, including portions also claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan, insists that the Shoal has been part of its territory since at least the 13th century and points to old maps that mark it as Chinese... .
