Opinion: China throws out South China Sea rule book

Politics & Current Affairs

"China has crossed a new threshold," writes Andrew Browne. "It once found it necessary to justify its assertive actions in the South China Sea within a broad framework of legality โ€” however flimsy, contrived or contested its formulation of law appeared to the U.S. and its alliesโ€ฆ. This time it hardly bothered with a legal rationale."