At stake are territorial waters and mineral resources symbols of China's drive for hegemony and an outburst of national egotism.

WSJ: Eliot Cohen: American Withdrawal and World Disorder

For instance, the Law of the Sea Treaty would severely constrain America's ability to protect its security and economic interests by establishing a new global bureaucracy to oversee territorial disputes, free passage, and exploitation of seabed resources.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Citizen-defendants of the world

On the other hand, your correspondent recently heard a senior Japanese businessman give a speech (off the record) at a conference in Nagoya in which he described China's territorial ambitions in East Asia, and particularly its hunger for resources, as being akin to Hitler's Lebensraum policy in the 1930s, stating that it must be resisted at all costs.

ECONOMIST: China and Japan

In spite of all this, some commentators now suggest that the Kurds are causing problems by insisting on territorial demands and proceeding with the development of Kurdistan's oil resources.

WSJ: Kurdistan Is a Model for Iraq

Firstly, as this newly discovered 'blue gold' is mostly located in international waters, making it extra-territorial in international law, it can be argued that the genetic resources living in the deep sea belong to humanity as a whole and therefore ought to be exploited equitably.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

These expenditures concern to allocation and use of monetary resources of the state for sectoral, goal-oriented and territorial purposes.

UNESCO: Belarus: Report: Part I: Descriptive Section