Carpio warns of UNCLOS collapse due to China
Retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio warned today that the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea will collapse if China continues to encroach on the exclusive economic zones of countries in the South China Sea, including the Philippines.
“UNCLOS will no longer serve as the constitutional law for the oceans and seas of our planet and all other coastal states, the small coastal states, will be at the mercy of their bigger neighbors who will just seize their exclusive economic zone,” he added. “There are two things China can comply. China can voluntarily complying which we do not see happening and China is forced by world opinion to comply,” he said.“But I think at the very least we will have a majority on our side,” said the retired magistrate who was part of the high-level legal team which won the 2016 arbitration.
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