Instead, China insists its exclusive economic zone stretches farther east to the edge of the continental shelf near the Japanese island of Okinawa.

而是，坚持认为中国的专属经济区一直向东延伸到日本冲绳岛附近的大陆架边缘。

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The results show that Kuroshio intrudes onto the continental shelf of East China sea in large scale and during its flow water is exchanged ceaselessly with outer sea along Ryukyu Island.

模拟结果表明黑潮在东海陆架有大规模的入侵，其在沿东海陆坡流动途中沿着冲绳岛与外海不断的进行水体交换。

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The East China Sea Shelf Basin is a marginal sea basin located on Continental crust of China eastern margin.

东海陆架盆地是位于中国大陆东部边缘大陆地壳之上的边缘海盆地。

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Oil is high because of uncertainty over Iran, disrupted supplies from Nigeria and Venezuela, crazy U.S. regulations prohibiting exploration and production in most of the Outer Continental Shelf and parts of Alaska, and expanding energy appetites in fast-growing India and China.

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But China says its zone extends to the edge of the continental shelf, almost to Japan.

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