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

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

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 […] … learn more→