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A Primer on the Escalating Tensions in the South China Sea

The China-Global South Podcast

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The Legal Grounds for Military Activities in the South China Sea

Under international law, any country can send their navy through the South China Sea. The difficulty comes into when China tries to assert what they call historic rights to the region. In an exclusive economic zone, you can do pretty much whatever you want as long as it's not taking resources without permission from that country. It gets a little trickier when you talk about going into a territorial sea,. There if you're going through a territorial sea, you need to go essentially in a straight line.

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