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China's 2017 fishing ban a threat to maritime rule-based order
China's 2017 fishing moratorium constitutes a severe violation of UNCLOS, which accords all the countries sovereign rights and jurisdiction over their Exclusive Economic Zones.
Law of the Sea Ruling Reveals Dangerous Chinese Nationalism
The recent ruling by a United Nation Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Arbitration Tribunal of the on a case brought by the Philippines against China has been welcomed by many governments that are concerned about rising tensions in the South China Sea. However, within China it has provoked outpourings of defiance.
Read more...A fair and effective code of conduct for the South China Sea
Some people could blame on the DOC's weaknesses when they look at current picture of the South China Sea which is painted with distrust and tensions. The region is in need of having an effective documnent, so-called COC. Yet, what are elements that should be included?
Read more...US analysis of China’s nine-dash line is correct
Historic fishing activities by the peoples around the South China Sea in what was at that time international waters cannot give China the right to fish in other countries’ EEZs today.
Read more...South China Sea Disputes: Facts or Fiction?
If a country cites international law to justify its position while avoiding having that position tested in court, such use of international law is just rhetoric, and does not deserve support from scholars.
Read more...Chinese Offshore Oil Company Fuels South China Sea Tension
CNOOC is using Western technology to further Chinese territorial claims.
Read more...South China Sea disputes: Chinese historical evidence found wanting
“Historical evidences” of some Chinese scholars are vague, erroneous or blatantly false, relying as they do on uncorroborated evidence, faulty logic, misquotes, misinterpretations and outright inventions.
Read more...One confrontation, three legal questions
“Is Vietnam or China legally right in this confrontation?”: According to UNCLOS as has been interpreted by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the answer is definitely Vietnam, regardless of the answers to the first two questions.
Read more...New ten-dashed line map revealed China’s ambition
Deliberately and desperately applying irrelevant concepts and provisions of UNCLOS will not create the legal basis for the nine dashed line claim.
Read more...South China Sea: Rightness is mightness, not vice versa
The oil-rig incident is a reminder to China that mightiness does not bring rightness, it is the other way around.
Read more...Exposing China’s Artificial Islands Plan in the Spratly’s
Rather than dismissing the concerns of its neighbors as part of a political conspiracy, China should come to understand how its own actions contribute to the perception of a Chinese threat, as evident in its plan to construct artificial islands in the Spratly Archipelago.
Read more...New tensions in the South China Sea
China is not conducting the activities of oil rig within its right and its illegal aggressive action is affecting stability and peaceful environment in the whole region.
Read more...South China Sea & China's Grand Chessboard
China has thrown a ball in to the U.S. court, and it is up to the U.S. to respond firmly.
Read more...The Paracels: Forty Years On
China’s act of locating its oil rig in contested waters in the Paracels is more than a dispute over sovereignty. It is also a dispute about international law of the sea.
Read more...The Paracels: Does China have ‘undisputed sovereignty’?
China should admit that sovereignty over the Paracels is disputed and withdraw its oil rig from its current location because any drilling that causes permanent change to the seabed in the disputed water is not allowed under international law.
Read more...The danger of convoluting everything into sovereignty disputes
Much of the tensions in the South China Sea could be resolved by applying UNCLOS’s dispute settlement procedure to matters relating to maritime delimitation and cooperation in disputed areas.
Read more...Sovereignty over Paracels: Article Lets Off Beijing Lightly
Bateman states that "a negotiated maritime boundary in this area would likely place the rig within China’s EEZ even if reduced weight was given to China’s claimed insular features". A careful analysis suggests just the opposite.
Read more...Dark cloud caused by China’s oil rig may have a silver lining
A legally binding end to China’s nebulous and maritime claims in these areas would bring enormous clarity, stability and security to at least two thirds of the area that is currently covered by China’s ominous U-shaped line, and could also have positive effects on the Paracels area.
Read more...Haiyang 981: From Water Cannons to Court?
A dangerous clash has flared up between Vietnam and China over the latter’s deployment of an oil rig near the disputed Paracels. One option for Vietnam is to submit the dispute to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea’s (UNCLOS) compulsory dispute settlement procedure.
Read more...Reassurance needed, unlikely over the Nine-Dash Line
What would reassure neighbouring nations is for China to bring their claims into the realm of international law and reasonableness. China should be prepared to negotiate in good faith the limits of the disputed area.
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