China's Straight Baseline Claim and Implications for Countries in Southeast Asia

The Declaration's claim to straight baselines violates the provisions of UNCLOS on the determination of baselines. Specifically, China is not an archipelagic state, so China is not allowed to draw baselines in the Paracels. Especially violating the sovereignty of the State of Vietnam over the Hoang Sa archipelago, because the Hoang Sa archipelago is the sacred territory of the State of Vietnam, China does not have any right to draw baselines in the archipelago. Hoang Sa.