A Legal Imbroglio in the South China Sea

... billion into Vietnam in 2014 alone, the US has only offered to clean up chemically contaminated parts of the country some 40 years after the Vietnam War ended. Presumably, both the offer of weapons and nationwide decontamination is subject to strict Vietnamese compliance over the United States’ glaring anti-China stance in the South China Sea. Yesterday’s bitter enemies are today’s strategic partners whenever history is reinterpreted with facile sleaze. But history cannot be easily brushed aside, even if the UN Court of Arbitration in The Hague rules in favour ...