{"id":619,"date":"2018-07-16T09:46:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T09:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2020-10-13T09:53:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T09:53:53","slug":"chinas-historic-rights-claim-in-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s &#8216;historic rights&#8217; in the South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This article, published in the academic journal &#8216;Asian Affairs&#8217;, explores the origins of Chinese arguments for &#8216;historic rights&#8217; in the South China Sea &#8211; rights that go beyond the provisions of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). It finds them in the work of a single Taiwanese academic writing in the 1990s during a period of intense debate in Taiwan over its relationship with the PRC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/03068374.2018.1487689\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/03068374.2018.1487689<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/AsianAffairsCover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/AsianAffairsCover.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/AsianAffairsCover-280x170.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article, published in the academic journal &#8216;Asian Affairs&#8217;, explores the origins of Chinese arguments for &#8216;historic rights&#8217; in the South China Sea &#8211; rights that go beyond the provisions of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). It finds them in the work of a single Taiwanese academic writing in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/AsianAffairsCover.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tOHn-9Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}