WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday laid out its most detailed case yet against Beijing's"unlawful" claims in the South China Sea, rejecting both the geographic and historic bases for its vast, divisive map.
"These claims gravely undermine the rule of law in the oceans and numerous universally recognised provisions of international law reflected in the Convention," it said, referring to a 1982 UN treaty on the law of the sea ratified by China - but not the United States. The State Department paper said that such historical-based claims had"no legal basis" and that China had not offered specifics.
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