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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. (-5[1])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 UNCLOS (“UN-kloss”) arbitration about this (10[1])body of water adjudicated multiple (10[1])arguments based on the legal concept of res nullius. A standoff at Scarborough (10[1])Shoal in this body of water has been ongoing since (10[1])2012. (-5[1])The Paracel and Spratly (10[1])Islands in this body of water (10[1])are claimed by Vietnam. For (10[1])10 points, the Gulf of Tonkin used to be part of a “nine-dash line” that divides (10[1])what body of water? (10[1])■END■

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