The South China Sea Dispute involves which of the following countries 1. China 2. Vietnam 3. Malaysia 4. Indonesia Select the correct answer using the code given below.?

Option 3 : 1, 2 and 3

• The South China Sea is one of the busiest sea-route in the world.
• The South China Sea dispute is an overlapping territorial dispute involving countries like Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines.
• In this decade-long dispute, China claims its sovereignty over more than 80 percent of the territory while Vietnam claims over the Paracel Islands and the Spratly Islands.
• The Philippines affirms its sovereignty over Spratly archipelago and the Scarborough Shoal, while the countries like Brunei and Malaysia have asserted their ownership over the southern region of the ocean and some of Spratly Islands.