Sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly Islands
On April 1st this year, a US spy plane and a Chinese fighter
aircraft collided about sixty-five miles southeast of Hainan Island. The
consequences were the death of the Chinese pilot who was rapidly promoted to
the rank of national hero, and the arrest of the eighty American crew members
who were taken hostage and then released. Another result was a whole range of
political-*****-strategic analyses, which stressed Peking’s intermittent
expansionism into the South China Sea, and which relied with varying degrees of
persuasiveness on legal argumentation to show the rightness of one side or the
other in the light of the gaps in contemporary international law.
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