[OPINION] Legal approaches in countering Chinese aggression

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Former Supreme Court Justice Antonio T. Carpior delivered these remarks at ADR Stratbase Institute’s forum marking the 8th anniversary of the July 12, 2016 arbitral award.

The legal approaches in countering Chinese aggression are the countermeasures most dreaded by China. Why? Because China simply has no defense against these legal approaches.

This was admitted recently by Wu Shicun, China’s guru who convinced the Chinese communist leadership to claim, not only the islands enclosed by the nine, now 10-dash line, but also all the waters, and all the living and non-living resources within the 10-dash line – comprising almost the entire South China Sea.

Last April 27, 2024, Wu Shicun, founder of the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, told an audience at the Chinese …

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