How a single Taiwanese academic invented China's claim to 'historic rights' in the South China Sea

What is it about?

The article demonstrates that the emergence of the argument that China enjoyed 'historic rights' in the South China Sea was closely connected to arguments within the Taiwanese political elite about whether or not to maintain a 'one China' position in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It shows how the argument was largely the creation of a single academic.

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