evidence: Yesterday, Reuters published an interesting report on the recent months-long standoff between Indonesia and China over an oil rig planted in a maritime region claimed by both countries. According to the report, which cited four sources familiar with the matter, China told the Indonesian government to stop drilling for oil and natural gas near Indonesia’s Natuna islands on the grounds that the region was "Chinese territory." [...] Farhan also alleged that Chinese diplomats also sent a separate letter protested against the holding of the Garuda Shield military exercises with the United States in August, which took place amid the standoff around the Natuna islands. China and Indonesia have a recent history of friction around the Natunas, where Indonesia’s 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone, a concept set out in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), overlaps with the southernmost reaches of China’s expansive "nine-dash line" maritime claim.