China Sea

American  

noun

1. the East China Sea and the South China Sea, taken together.

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China Sea British  

noun

1. part of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of China: divided by Taiwan into the East China Sea in the north and the South China Sea in the south

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Example Sentences

Most of the country's imported crude oil, which comes from Iran and the Middle East through the South China Sea, is used as fuel to support factories and transportation, mainly in the southern half of China.

From BBC

According to trade analytics group Kpler, more than 46 million barrels of Iranian crude oil - several days' worth of energy - currently sit in tankers along the South China Sea.

From BBC

But he will surely welcome the prospect that his navy can be more assertive since the USS Abraham Lincoln, now stationed in the Middle East, doesn’t seem likely to return to the South China Sea anytime soon.

From Barron's

Gas sailing from Alaska to Tokyo, Seoul and other Asian ports travels across the open ocean without passing through Hormuz, the South China Sea or the Panama Canal.

From The Wall Street Journal

Another incident detected in early January involved around 1,000 Chinese fishing vessels clustered in an uneven rectangle, about 400 kilometres long, for more than a day in the same area of the East China Sea.

From Barron's