South China Sea

noun

a part of the western Pacific, bounded by southeastern China, Vietnam, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and the Philippines.

South China Sea

part of the Pacific surrounded by SE China, Vietnam, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and the Philippines

First recorded in 1870–75

Many boats ran into trouble with the Thai pirates who prowled the South China Sea at that time.

Days were wasted searching the South China Sea, not the Indian Ocean.

There are lots of sources of tension in that relationship, notably in the South China Sea.

The South China Sea is now the scene of one of the more serious feuds between officials in Washington and Beijing.

The last part of the journey was almost entirely through shallow water—three hundred miles of the warm South China Sea.

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