Barbarians at the Gate

Barbarians at the Gate Podcast: China’s territorial claims on the rocks in the South China Sea

07.13.2016 - By Barbarians at the GatePlay

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On Tuesday, an international tribunal at the Hague ruled that China’s attempts to claim almost the entire South China Sea as sovereign territory had no legal basis.

In a special emergency podcast, Jeremiah and James talk about the implications of the decision at the Hague, the reaction here in Beijing, and the use (and abuses) of history in establishing contemporary territorial claims.

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