Five years on, South China Sea ruling keeps making waves
By Viet Anh July 20, 2021 | 07:55 am GMT+7
Filipino fishermen rest after arriving from a week-long trip to the disputed Scarborough Shoal, in Infanta, Pangasinan province, Philippines, July 6, 2021. Photo by Reuters/Eloisa Lopez.
The arbitral tribunal ruling on the South China Sea in 2016 has generated lasting influence and is set to have greater normative authority in the future, experts say.
On July 12, 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the Netherlands, rejected China s nine-dash line claiming 90 percent of the South China Sea, known as the East Sea in Vietnam.
Assessing the impact of the tribunal’s ruling, Cmdr. Jonathan Odom, Military Professor of International Law, Marshall Center for Security Studies, a German-American partnership in Germany, said it gives the Philippines and other countries a powerful podium to stand on.
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Might s right: China uses military muscle to override legal shortcomings
By Viet Anh April 29, 2021 | 07:55 am GMT+7
Clearly disadvantaged in making South China Sea claims under international law, China s gray zone tactics are thin cover for deploying its muscle power. China s strategy is being implemented with a power-based approach versus a rules-based approach, said Cmdr. Jonathan Odom, Military Professor of International Law, Marshall Center for Security Studies.
He was speaking Tuesday in his personal capacity at a virtual webinar on the Rule of Law and Gray Zone Activities in the East and South China Seas, hosted by Pacific Forum, a non-profit, foreign policy research institute based in Honolulu, Hawaii, the U.S.