rights" over the nine-dash line. Accordingly, the PCA tribunal decision is ruled as final and non-appealable by either countries. The tribunal also criticized China's land reclamation projects and its construction of artificial islands in the Spratly Islands, saying that it had caused "severe harm to the coral reef environment". It also characterized Taiping Island and other features of the Spratly Islands as "rocks" under UNCLOS, and therefore are not entitled to a 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone. China however rejected the ruling, calling it "ill-founded". Taiwan, which currently administers Taiping Island, the largest of the Spratly Islands, also rejected the ruling. See also Chinese unification Great Wall of Sand Kuril Islands dispute Liancourt Rocks dispute Sansha Senkaku Islands dispute Territories claimed by the Philippines References Further reading François-Xavier Bonnet, Geopolitics of Scarborough Shoal, Irasec's Discussion Papers, No. 14, November 2012. Forbes, Andrew, and Henley, David: Vietnam Past and Present: The North (Sino-Viet relations in Paracels and Spratlys). Chiang Mai. Cognoscenti Books, 2012. . Menon, Rajan, "Worry about Asia, Not Europe", The National Interest, Sept–Oct 2012 Issue, 11 September 2012 External links Spratlys website (pro-China) Paracels and Spratlys website (pro-Vietnam) Mariner's page of the Spratly Islands Taiwanese List with ~170 entries (archived from on 2013-06-16) List of atolls with areas A tabular summary about the Spratly and Paracel Islands Third Party Summary of the Dispute A collection of documents on Spratly and Paracel Islands by Nguyen Thai Hoc Foundation Inventory of Conflict and Environment (ICE), Spratly Islands Dispute Red Sky and Yellow Stars over Asia, an analysis by The CenSEI Report Disputed territories in Southeast Asia Territorial disputes of Brunei Territorial disputes of China Territorial disputes of Malaysia Territorial disputes of the Philippines Territorial disputes of the Republic of China Territorial disputes of Vietnam