Category: South China Sea Arbitration

The CCP Adopts New Maritime Policy, Aggravating Tensions in the South China Sea

China’s Coast Guard recently adopted new enforcement directives from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The new policies instruct the China Coast Guard to arrest foreigners and have drawn international scrutiny due to territorial disputes in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. The CCP’s move was seen as an escalation of those disputes. On…


Canada Calls on China to Comply With South China Sea Ruling

Canada has called on China to comply with international law in the South China Sea based on a historic ruling by an arbitration tribunal five years ago that rejected Beijing’s territorial claims in the region. “Canada is particularly concerned by China’s escalatory and destabilizing actions in the East and South China Seas, including, recently, off…