South China Sea dispute – what next?
Just before UNCLOS issued its July 12, 2016 decision in the Philippines’s case against China about rocks and islands in the South China Sea, FedArb Chairman Abraham D. Sofaer wrote about the ramifications, predicting that China would move “away from nuanced arguments to more rigid adherence to the regime’s position that China is sovereign over all the land features and waters within the “indisputable” Nine-Dash Line.”