ACTIVISTS in Vietnam held a brief rally outside the Philippine Embassy in Hanoi Sunday, holding up a banner that said “Thank you Philippines. You have a brave government.” The group was part of demonstrations in the Vietnamese capital to protest against China, after it rejected a recent international ruling that dismissed Beijing’s claims to much […]

BEIJING, July 18- Freedom of navigation patrols carried out by foreign navies in the South China Sea could end “in disaster”, a senior Chinese admiral has said, a warning to the United States after last week’s ruling against Beijing’s claims in the area. China has refused to recognise the ruling by an arbitration court in […]

Marcopolo Tam, a member of a pro-China business group in Hong Kong, points to what is now known as the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea on a Japanese World War II era map purporting to support China’s claims to vast parts of the South China Sea, in Hong Kong Thursday, July 14, 2016. […]

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Japan’s southernmost islet is so small at nine square meters it conjures up comparisons to boats and bedrooms. Curiously, the government in Tokyo has spent an estimated $600 million on infrastructure such as cement and steel breakwaters to prevent erosion of the tiny feature. It’s also cultivating […]

ULAAN BAATAR, Mongolia — Experts, including Supreme Court Justice and principal proponent in the case Antonio Carpio, agree that the ruling of the international arbitral tribunal for the Philippines in its territorial dispute against China may not be enforceable. But a Chinese environmentalist has an idea on how to stop his country from building military […]

The Hague ruling is binding and final, so China can comply or be branded as an outlaw in the region. “Nothing but truth in here and it was unfair,” lamented Aglaya Ivanovna, one of Dostoyevsky’s protagonists in The Idiot. This was essentially China’s response to a major legal setback, when an arbitration body at The […]

“I consider the Reagan administration to be an anomaly in terms of respect for international law. The United States does have a history of complying with the judgments of the International Court of Justice.” PAUL S. REICHLER Credit Mary F. Calvert for The New York Times BEIJING — Paul S. Reichler’s first big break came […]

Scores of activists have been detained in Vietnam’s capital as they gathered to protest against China who rejected last week’s ruling dismissing its claims to much of the South China Sea. Domestic critics accuse Hanoi of being too meek towards Beijing Anti-Chinese sentiment runs deep in communist Vietnam, but the country’s authoritarian rulers move swiftly […]

It shows the Law of the Sea treaty provides a level playing field for states, big and small, to protect their legal rights. On Tuesday, the Arbitral Tribunal in the South China Sea disputes between the Philippines and China issued its long-awaited final award. It rejected China’s claim of historic rights within the “Nine-Dash Line”. […]

After a major diplomatic set-back, a look back at how China got to this point. The ruling by the tribunal in the Philippines vs. China arbitration case is no doubt a major setback to Chinese diplomacy. No matter how people evaluate the quality and impartiality of the ruling, especially concerning it is overwhelmingly in favor […]