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What cost reprieve?
FOREIGN relations is not for the weak. In promoting their national interest, states employ their best poker players as diplomats to bluff, cajole, and threaten if need be. It is not for the faint...
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Summit on KIG
Summit on Kalayaan islands The Institute of International Legal Studies of the University of the Philippines Law Center held last Monday and Tuesday a National Summit on the Kalayaan Group of Islands...
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Freedoms and the Spratlys
I’m still abroad as I write this column. I am currently in Bangkok, Thailand doing a training on freedom of expression for Burmese, Laotian, and Cambodian lawyers. It is a bit of an irony that while I...
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ITLOS and the Scarborough Shoal
Now that Secretary Albert Del Rosario shares my view that the Scarborough Shoal dispute should be submitted to the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) for peaceful resolution, the...
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The Chinese view on the Philippine arbitration on the West Philippine Sea
Judge Xue Participants to the recently concluded 4th biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law in New Delhi, India last November 15, 2017 heard for the first time the Chinese...
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China’s retaliation?
Former Secretary Raffy Alunan warned on ANC this week that China will retaliate in response to our filing of our Memorial in our pending arbitration against China under the UN Convention on the Law of...
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