Mô tả
In this article we focus on China’s claim in order to understand the articulation of its “historic rights” argument and to assess its merits in light of the principles of public international law. Our main purpose is to explore the potential relevance of such an argument if it came to be invoked by China in the context of an international dispute-settlement procedure. This study has two parts: in part I, we define the geographical and legal contours of China’s historic rights claim as expressed by state practice and the secondary literature, and in part II we analyze and assess the merits of the Chinese position