"territorial tensions" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to disagreements or conflicts between different nations or regions over geographical boundaries or resources. For example: "The rising territorial tensions between China and India have led to increased military activity in the region."
Aquino appears more lukewarm to Beijing amid a resurgence in territorial tensions over disputed islands in the South China Sea.
Apart from political and territorial tensions, the country also has suffered from a rocky economy in recent years.
Though the volume was completed before China's current territorial tensions with its neighbors, it helps expose, and explain, Beijing's hardball mind-set.
Territorial tensions have often divided the Asian giants since India became independent of British rule and China came under Communist control more than 50 years ago.
Protesters staged one of Vietnam's largest ever anti-China demonstrations on Sunday, decrying Beijing's deployment of a deep-water drilling rig in contested waters as territorial tensions soar.
It may be the lesson of the Middle East, where the economic disparity between Israel and the Palestinians only fuels the ethnic and territorial tensions.
Not only is territorial tension in abeyance, it almost seems reversed.
Strongly influenced by Seán O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock, it is itself the inspiration for some of the plays of August Wilson and Bruce Norris's skewering of liberal hypocrisy and territorial racial tensions, Clybourne Park.
The verbal sniping has brought a reminder of the thicket of territorial and historical tensions dividing Mr. Modi and his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping.
For Mr. Xi, steadier ties with India are a building block in his broader strategy of defusing territorial and geopolitical tensions by dispensing investment and trade opportunities, extending Chinese influence and diluting Washington's sway.
Maritime tensions, territorial disputes in Asia's contested waters and unease at a more robust and assertive China will all figure as part of the debate.
