The South China Sea continues to act as a lightning rod for competing claims among regional powers. In the first of a three-part series, Laura Zhou examines how a new conservation framework is being leveraged to advance territorial ambitions within these highly contested waters.
Amid simmering tensions in the South China Sea, a likely new legal and diplomatic battlefield has emerged.
Two decades in the making, the High Seas Treaty, also known as the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction…
