The Philippines, only found modest reserves.3 Recent efforts by coastal Vietnam and China have all witnessed expressions states to exploit hydrocarbons in disputed areas are of grassroots nationalism associated with the islands one source of tension in the South China Sea, however in the South China Sea, which in some cases has others argue that the relative importance of oil reserves tied the han [...] The third facet relates to the degree of coastal state authority over claimed maritime space, in particular the balance between coastal state authority and the freedom of navigation for user states. [...] The second facet of the dispute relates to the existence China defines survey in the broadest possible terms and breadth of claims to maritime zones from claimant to include both hydrographic and military research state coastlines and from the disputed islands. [...] Although the Impeccable left the The driving force of tensions in the South China Sea area to avoid conflict escalation, it returned the next dispute is the perception of claimant states that day, accompanied by a destroyer, to finish its survey in order to maintain a claim to disputed territory work. [...] In 2009 China deployed a number of fisheries area from the Yellow Sea to the waters off Indonesia, department vessels to enforce its fishing ban and bounded on the east by the islands of Japan and the detained a number of Vietnamese fishermen in the Philippines.