Monroe Doctrine analogy

• China’s other false claims in the SCS

  01 October 2020

  Cairo Declaration, China’s other false claims, Crosscurrents, International Law, Justice Carpio, Monroe Doctrine analogy, nine‑dash line, Paracel Islands, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine Maritime Rights, Potsdam Declaration, San Francisco Peace Treaty, South China Sea, Spratly Islands, UNCLOS

  Justice Carpio debunks additional historical and legal arguments China has used to support its South China Sea claims—showing that declarations like Cairo and Potsdam, and the San Francisco Peace Treaty, do not award the Spratlys or Paracels to China, and that analogies to the Monroe Doctrine are specious.

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