Chinese officials remember diplomat who helped shape ‘Law of the Sea’

• Li Shengjiao was regarded as China’s top expert on international maritime law and boundary demarcation issues

Foreign affairs officials and observers have remembered a Chinese diplomat who was involved in the creation of an international treaty on the use of the world’s seas and oceans on the first anniversary of his death.

• South China Morning Post

Li Shengjiao, who served as Counsellor of the Chinese Mission to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), died on August 6, 2017 at the age of 82 from an unspecified illness.

He was regarded as China’s top expert on international maritime law and boundary demarcation issues. In a 40-year career he was also involved in…

• Chinese officials remember…