Whose “International Law” Are We Talking About?

With the US picking and choosing what parts of customary international law it embraces, the FON operations are clearly exercises of hegemonic power projection so as to establish a US-dominated maritime legal order beyond a world ocean legal order guaranteed under UNCLOS. As for the FON operations conducted in the South China Sea, they are no more than a tool to carry out the US “Pivot to Asia” strategy.

Liu Haiyang Research Fellow, Nanjing University via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1WYrB4q