Application of International Law Theories to the Dispute on the Nansha Islands
There are two types of territory acquisition and change, namely, traditional and modern ways in international law. Traditionally, there are five ways in terms of territory acquisition and change: occupation, accretion, prescription, cession and conquest.
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Legal Study on China’s Sovereignty over the Nansha Islands
Legal Study on China’s Sovereignty over the Nansha Islands
Cuibai Yang Qianwen Zhang •
Legal Study on China’s Sovereignty over the Nansha Islands
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Cuibai Yang Sichuan University Sichuan, China
Qianwen Zhang Southwest Jiaotong University Chengdu, China
Translated by Cuibai Yang and Qianwen Zhang. Both authors contribute equally to this work.
The translation is supported by Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
ISBN 978-981-15-8714-6 ISBN 978-981-15-8715-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8715-3
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Preface
Legal Study on Chia’s Sovereignty over the Nansha Islands is the revised edition of my Study on Jurisprudence of the Nansha Islands a decade ago which became a restricted publication due to multiple concerns of the publisher when it was to be published in July, 2003. Lots of readers have no access to this book for it was not sold publicly and one Singaporean Chinese even asked me to send her the book by mail. South China Sea issues since then have never been resolved but exacerbated for the past decade. Even China’s unilateral proposition of “shelving differences and seeking joint development” has been unable to achieve the goal. Great powers outside the region such as the United States and Japan question China’s sovereignty right over the Nansha Islands, and some other extraterritorial countries
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