Approaching the 10th anniversary of the Arbitral Award, China intensifies presence on Scarborough Shoal

Context: the arbitral award at (nearly) ten years An Arbitral Tribunal constituted in The Hague in accordance with Annex VII of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) issued its landmark ruling on 12 July 2016, finding that China’s nine-dash-line claims had no legal basis and that Beijing had unlawfully interfered with […]