Director of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the Naval War College
Professor Dutton, director of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the Naval War College, publishes and lectures widely on American and Chinese views of sovereignty and international law of the sea and on the strategic implications to the United States of Chinese international law and policy choices.
China is rejecting the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to settle disputes in the West Philippine Sea because Beijing knows its claim is not supported by the international law, a US naval expert said Thursday.