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How the World Enables China’s Legal Gamesmanship
Writing on Lawfare in May, I described how a large bloc of countries might collectively protect the rules-based order at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).
More specifically, I suggested that the official delegates of the 160-plus national governments who will convene later in 2020 for the 30th meeting of state parties to the U.N…
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I asserted that it would send a message, both individually and collectively, to China’s government: that Beijing’s disregard for the legally binding…
I further argued that such action by this large group of sovereign states would be both lawful and…