The 2016 international arbitration court ruling on the East Sea (internationall known as the South China Sea) was hailed as a major breakthrough as China’s extensive maritime territorial claims (the nine-dash line) were categorically deemed invalid. Yet the impact of the ruling on the ground has so far been limited and non-compliance might spell troubles for international dispute settlement mechanisms, experts have said. Fishermen from Hoai Nhon District of the coastal province Binh Dinh on an offshore fishing expedition in the East Sea. The Hague-based international arbitration court announced on July 12, 2016, a landmark ruling that dealt a significant legal blow to China’s sweeping claims over most of the East Sea. At the time, expectations were high that the tribunal’s ruling, in a case initiated by the Philippines over China’s aggressive attempts to prevent Filipino fishermen from fishing off the waters of the Scarborough Shoal since 2012, would have a great impact and possibly lead to a permanent settlement of tensions. The “final and without appeal” verdict of the arbitral tribunal, set up under Annex VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS 1982), states that all of the maritime features in the Truong… Read full this story
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