Blinkered Justice at The Hague on the South China Sea

The arbitral panel had an opportunity to chart a constructive approach to one of the foremost legal questions of the Asia-Pacific. However, where it should have chosen to foster mutually cooperative tendencies on ill-understood provisions of the law, the award performed a disservice with consequences that will reverberate for a considerable time to come.

Sourabh Gupta Resident Senior Fellow, Institute for China-America Studies via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/2bX7ZgR