Possible Clues:

• From one direction, point to the back of the ship
• ___ Seaboard
• From the direction of the rising sun
• Like Tibet and Nepal, banning anything odd, authoritarian
• Maryland time zone
• Oriental cuisine's finale: a small bird
• English getting behind Chinese, perhaps
• Sneer at being misdirected -- this section of map is right
• From Japan, say
• Someone dining given seconds by new Chinese, perhaps