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Critically examine India’s position on South China Sea Dispute.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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China claims most of the South China Sea within its nine-dash line (ten dashes on its 2023 map), against Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan and Indonesia's EEZ. On 12 July 2016 an UNCLOS Annex VII tribunal in Philippines v. China found the line without legal basis; Beijing rejected the award. India is no claimant,…

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