There the shelf zone ends and the slope towards the deep sea begins.

那里陆棚地带终止，呈倾斜状进入深海。

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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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Rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economiclife of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf.

仅依托其本身不能支持人类居住和经济生活的礁石，不拥有专属经济区和大陆架。

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

ECONOMIST: China, Japan and Taiwan