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Barbarians at the Gate Podcast: China’s territorial claims on the rocks in the South China Sea
Barbarians at the Gate
English - July 13, 2016 00:20 - 9 minutes - 8.75 MBPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Barbarians at the Gate Podcast: Keeping up with the Khitans
On Tuesday, an international tribunal at the Hague ruled that China’s attempts to claim almost the entire South China Sea as sovereign territory had no legal basis.
In a special emergency podcast, Jeremiah and James talk about the implications of the decision at the Hague, the reaction here in Beijing, and the use (and abuses) of history in establishing contemporary territorial claims.