The Nature of Dispute  The South China Sea dispute is one of the most complex maritime disputes, which is indeed one of the longest maritime disputes which is not nearing mutually agreed resolution. Usually maritime disputes take place due to the pursuit of  living resources, offshore nonliving resources, uncertain sovereignty, over uninhabited islands or rocks or varying interpretation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS). Since different states adopt different interpretations of how to draw boundary lines at sea, it has led to enlargement of their maritime jurisdiction, maritime dispute of overlapping claims and maritime contestation over marine and natural resources.   The South China Sea dispute comprises all the above mentioned elements of maritime dispute....