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Title:
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Beijing Adopts New Tactic for S. China Sea Claims
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Author:
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Bill Gertz
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Source:
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The Washington Free Beacon
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Date:
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September 21, 2017
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Description:
- The Chinese government recently unveiled a new legal tactic to promote Beijing's aggressive claim to own most of the strategic South China Sea. The new narrative that critics are calling "lawfare," or legal warfare, involves a shift from China's so-called "9-Dash Line" ownership covering most of the sea. The new lawfare narrative is called the "Four Sha"—Chinese for sand—and was revealed by Ma Xinmin, deputy director general in the Foreign Ministry's department of treaty and law, during a closed-door meeting with State Department officials last month.
