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However, Robert Beckman, a professor of international law at the National University of Singapore, has pointed out that China could claim that some features near Reed bank qualify as "islands", under UNCLOS, having their own full 200-mile EEZ, which would overlap with the Philippines'.If China were to limit itself to claims based on UNCLOS, things would be clearer.
The truth is: the Philippines can't only rely on UNCLOS to address this critical situation, and it will need the help of its allies (particularly the United States and Japan) and partners across the world as well as the full support of the Filipino nation.
"Under Article 76 of Unclos, the issue of the extended continental shelf is not something resolved by power or politics," Mr. Byers said.
To add credibility to these moves, the United States should ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos), which has governed other sovereign maritime states for the last 16 years.
In 2013, The Philippines filed an ongoing lawsuit at the UN International Court of Arbitration, questioning the legality of China's territorial claims and its development of tidal reefs that are only periodically above water, which it alleges violates the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos).
There are other legal avenues for the claimants, and Beijing said earlier this month it plans to claim the Diaoyus under provisions in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, or Unclos.
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, a court under the Unclos umbrella, might serve as yet another arbiter of the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute.
From declaring that it will not abide by any Unclos ruling against it, it would not be such a large step for China to depart from Unclos altogether – particularly since the US has never joined – and insist that its new positions in the South China Sea be given a wide berth by others, in the surrounding waters and in the skies overhead.
Under Unclos, which China signed in 1996, and the US has never ratified, artificial islands built atop submerged features such as the reefs flown over that day do not entitle a country to territorial rights – and yet, there was the presumed voice of a Chinese soldier telling the Americans to go away.
