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"U.S. risks credibility gap by swatting China with international treaty it has never ratified"  — Jesse Johnson — The Japan Times — February 01, 2016

In the wake of Washington’s second “freedom of navigation” operation near Beijing’s man-made islets in the South China Sea, an often overlooked fact remains: The set of laws governing global maritime behavior that the U.S. has been touting has never been ratified by the Senate.

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"Sea treaty mutiny simmers"  — Mark J. Valencia — The Japan Times — July 07, 2013

Recently China has been under withering political and legal attack for allegedly violating the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. What are the consequences if China simply gets “fed up” with the criticism and withdraws from the treaty?  

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