China insisted the US had no right to interfere in the South China Sea as it refused to join the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
It likewise hit America’s freedom of navigation operations as the “biggest driver of militarization” in the waterway, though experts have defined this as one of the most robust ways to enforce the Philippine’s 2016 arbitral award that struck down China’s sweeping 9-dash line claiming virtually the entire sea.
South China SeaFirst we need to change the name to West Philippine sea...