Japan’s diplomatic note on the South China Sea shows its self-interest at play

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Last week, Japan became the latest country to submit a diplomatic note to the United Nations on the South China Sea, rejecting China’s position that its drawing of territorial sea baselines around the islands and reefs it claims in the waters conforms to the UN Convention for the Law of the Sea and international law.A tribunal in The Hague had in 2016 ruled in a dispute brought forth by the Philippines against China that some maritime features in the South China Sea were “low tide elevations”…

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