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This body of water was the location of Tomás Cloma’s unrecognized state of “Freedomland,” which was subsequently incorporated as the Kalayaan municipality. The “eye” of this body of water is the Dragon Hole, located in an archipelago whose name derives from the Portuguese for “reef.” Over 20 DK1 rigs extract oil for a country on the western side of this body of water. A 2016 (-5[1])UNCLOS (“UN-kloss”) arbitration about this body of water adjudicated multiple (10[1])arguments based on the legal concept of res nullius. (10[1])A standoff at Scarborough Shoal (10[1])in this body (10[1]-5[1])of water has been ongoing since 2012. The Paracel and Spratly Islands (10[2])in this body (10[1])of water (10[1])are claimed by Vietnam. (10[1])For 10 points, the Gulf of Tonkin used to be part of a “nine-dash line” that divides what body of water? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: South China Sea [accept Biển Đông; or Nán Hǎi; or Laut China Selatan; reject “East China Sea”]
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