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China sending huge force in Scarborough ahead of civilian mission
“China is sending a huge force to blockade Scarborough Shoal ahead of the Atin Ito civilian convoy setting sail from the Philippines Tuesday,” Powell, who heads the program of Stanford University’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation that tracks Chinese maritime activities in the West Philippine Sea, said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
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China seized Scarborough Shoal’s lagoon in 2012 after a CCG standoff with Philippine vessels.
Related:
Amb. Fu Ying on Huangyan Dao/Scarborough Shoal & why it’s Chinese territory
Former US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell [Zichen’s note: currently Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs on the National Security Council and recently nominated for Deputy Secretary of State, Department of State] wrote in his book The Pivot: -The Future of American Statecraft in Asia that, “In 2012…the Philippines’ ten-week standoff with China ultimately resulted in its loss of the Scarborough Shoal, which is claimed by both countries. After protests and attempts by China to put serious but unofficial pressure on Philippine agricultural exports, the Philippine government brought its dispute with China to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).”[1]
The Pivot: The Future of American Statecraft in Asia
South China Sea Arbitration:
Beijing rejects tribunal’s ruling in South China Sea case
Paul Reichler, of the law firm Foley Hoag LLP, who who coordinated the Philippines’ legal team, said: “The tribunal’s ruling not only benefits the Philippines, it also benefits other states bordering the South China Sea like Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. If China’s nine-dash line is invalid as to the Philippines, it is equally invalid to those states and, indeed, the rest of the international community.”
Paul S. Reichler, Foley Hoag, based in the United States
China issues white paper on SCS; Arbitral court not an UN agency, unjust and questionable judges…
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