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What's at stake in China's claims to the South China Sea?

  • Written by Scott L. Montgomery, Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

It’s now official: the South China Sea does not belong to China.

Official, that is, according to a new ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

Not so official, however, for China itself, which has summarily rejected the ruling, saying it “will neither acknowledge it...

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