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UPDATE SYRIA (18 August 2016): Russia’s long-range Tu-22M3 bombers delivered their first airstrikes on terrorist targets in Syria operating from an Iranian airbase. Moscow and Tehran cooperation in Syria is “strategic,” confirmed the head of Iran’s National Security Council.

UPDATE (18 August 2016): South China Sea [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDetQySGbE]

The long range bombers with full bomb payload took off from Hamadan Airfield to attack Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and Al-Nusra Front facilities in Aleppo, Deir-ez-Zor and Idlib provinces. [https://www.rt.com/news/356098-russian-bombers-iran-hamadan/]


United Nations Law of the Seas Convention:
[http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/unclos_e.pdf]

Background:
SECTION 2. LIMITS OF THE TERRITORIAL SEA
Article 3
Breadth of the territorial sea
Every State has the right to establish the breadth of its territorial sea up
to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles, measured from baselines
determined in accordance with this Convention.
Article 4
Outer limit of the territorial sea
The outer limit of the territorial sea is the line every point of which is at
a distance from the nearest point of the baseline equal to the breadth of the
territorial sea.
Article 5
Normal baseline
Except where otherwise provided in this Convention, the normal baseline
for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea is the low-water line along the
coast as marked on large-scale charts officially recognized by the coastal
State.

PRC State-Run Newspaper:
Beijing: A Chinese state-owned newspaper said on Monday that "war is inevitable" between China and the United States over the South China Sea unless Washington stops demanding Beijing halt the building of artificial islands in the disputed waterway. [http://www.smh.com.au/world/south-china-sea-dispute-china-state-paper-warns-of-war-unless-us-backs-down-20150525-gh928h.html].

MOSCOW-BEIJING AXIS: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/artyom-lukin/russia-china-us_b_11014582.html

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