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After ratifying the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Vietnam has actively taken advantage of the legal document to protect its sovereignty and settle disputes in the East Sea.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has raised concern over China land reclamations activities in the South China Sea.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has raised concern over China land reclamations activities in the South China Sea.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has raised concern over Chinas land reclamations activities in the South China Sea.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has raised concern over China land reclamations activities in the South China Sea.

When I was teaching in Lesotho in southern Africa during the 1980s, I taught a class on comparative foreign policy. The course included trips to the US embassy, the Soviet embassy, the British embassy and the newly established Chinese embassy. The students could ask the ambassadors and staff questions about foreign policy, and would then write a report as their final term paper. The Chinese ambassador felt that the US-style education I delivered was unique and invited me to go to China to teach....

Works were scheduled to begin Tuesday 21 June and are expected to continue until Wednesday 31 August, weather allowing

Tokyo is currently limited in its ability to respond. That needs to change.

“Four Sha,” are four island groups in South China Sea that Beijing claims to hold “historical rights” to.

Saifuddin Abdullah says Beijing now “speaks less of the ‘nine-dash line’ and more often of the ‘Four Sha’.”