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PH wins: Arbitral court invalidates China’s 9-dash line

The Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled today that China’s all-encompassing nine-dash line is not valid. (To read the 501-page Award, please go to this site : https://pca-cpa.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/175/2016/07/PH-CN-20160712-Award.pdf) “The Tribunal found that China’s claim to historic rights to resources was incompatible with the detailed allocation of rights and maritime zones in the Convention and concluded that,

PH wins: Arbitral court invalidates China’s 9-dash line

The pitfalls of joint development of Spratlys with China

     By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IT’S best that Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. study carefully the intricacies of joint exploration with China so he can advise President Rodrigo Duterte to go slow about it. Yasay, in his clarification about what he said in an interview with Agence France Presse last week, said, ““As the

The pitfalls of joint development of Spratlys with China