China uses UNCLOS as the basis for its baselines, territorial waters, contiguous zone, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf. All the Philippines is doing, in light of China’s unilateral assertion of sovereignty, is to ask the Arbitral Tribunal to determine if it has the same entitlements under UNCLOS..... If China has an indisputable claim to sovereignty, as it repeatedly states, it should argue its case..... Carlyle A. Thayer,emeritus professor of the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defense Force Academy, Canberra.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 23:18:20 +0000
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