Law of the Sea

In the wake of a collision between a Korean vessel and a a container ship run by a Chinese company off east China's coast which led to the sinking of the Korean ship and 16 of its sailors missing, China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that China would continue to "exert all its strength to find the missing sailors in the humanitarian spirit." A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said that China will handle the case in accordance with international conventions and Chinese laws.