The Latest Developments of the US Freedom of Navigation Programs in the South China Sea: Deregulation or Re-balance?

• Author: Xinjun Zhang
• Pages: 167-168

China: US FONOPs 167

IX JEAIL 1 (2016)

Xinjun Zhang

∗

Regarding warships, customary rules on innocent passage and freedom of navigation

      

      

      

    

 “” 

   ’   

effect to the process of peaceful settlement of territorial issues and maritime disputes in

   



      

.

Keywords

FONOP, South China Sea, UNCLOS, Passage and Navigation, Low Tide



The Latest Developments

of the US Freedom of

Navigation Programs

in the South China Sea:

Deregulation or Re-balance?

∗ Associate Professor of International Law at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. LL.B. (Fudan), Ph.D. (U. Kyoto).

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7281-3893 The author may be contacted at: zxinjun@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn/

Address: School of Law, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14330/jeail.2016.9.1.08