Challenging Goliath

PHILIPPINES - Report 11 Apr 2014 by Romeo Bernardo and Christine Tang
Executive Summary Philippine-China relations sank to a new low last week following the Philippines’ filing of a memorial or pleading before a United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea arbitral tribunal. The memorial was in connection with the arbitration case it initiated against China early last year over disputed areas in the South China Sea (referred to as West Philippine Sea by local authorities) in which it sought to defend its rights under the 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The hope is that despite China’s current i...

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