China yearns to expose its rival as an unreliable ally
To grasp China ’s approach to the international rule of law, look at the South China Sea. In recent weeks and months, large white-hulled ships belonging to China ’s coastguard have been bullying small boats sent to resupply a rusting ship-cum-garrison purposely grounded by the Philippines —an American treaty ally—on a disputed coral atoll two decades ago. China claims that atoll, the Second Thomas Shoal , as its own.
In 2016 the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague largely upheld a claim by the Philippines government that China’s assertion of “historic rights” over swathes of the South China Sea is without legal basis. China calls that arbitral ruling a scrap of waste paper and continues to maintain and expand military bases on disputed reefs and artificial islands.
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