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Title:
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Beijing: Japanese Judge Means South China Sea Tribunal Is Biased
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Author:
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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian
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Source:
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Foreign Policy
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Date:
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June 21, 2016
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Description:
- Tensions over competing territorial claims in the resource-rich South China Sea have spiked in recent months as claimant countries, including China and the Philippines, await an upcoming decision by an international tribunal. That body, located at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague, is widely expected to rule in the Philippines’ favor. But China has repeatedly stated that it will not accept the upcoming ruling, and has recently engaged in a public relations blitz to gain international support for its position. Now, Beijing is raising an objection unique in the history of arbitration cases of this type: the nationality of the person who oversaw the tribunal’s formation.
