For more than 200 years, the United States has successfully preserved and protected its navigational rights and freedoms by relying on naval operations, diplomatic protests, and customary international law. U.S. membership in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) would not confer any maritime right or freedom that the U.S. does not already enjoy. The U.S. can best protect its rights by maintaining a strong U.S. Navy, not by acceding to a deeply flawed multilateral treaty.
The question of whether the United States should ratify the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea is for the U.S. Senate to answer, and it has declined to join the treaty for nearly three decades. And yet the United States and its Navy have somehow managed to survive without UNCLOS membership.
Since World War II, the US has held supremacy in the Pacific Ocean through its bases and military presence in Japan, South Korea, Australia, Micronesia, Palau. 12.05.2022, Sputnik International
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A US Navy admiral on Wednesday accused Beijing of “challenging” its “military access” to the western Pacific Ocean by creating an “anti-access umbrella” and through the use of “grey zone” operations.