{"id":153670,"date":"2020-07-25T03:44:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T01:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/25\/australia-declares-there-is-no-legal-basis-to-beijings-claims-in-south-china-sea\/"},"modified":"2020-07-25T03:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T01:44:12","slug":"australia-declares-there-is-no-legal-basis-to-beijings-claims-in-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=153670","title":{"rendered":"Australia declares &#039;there is no legal basis&#039; to Beijing\u2019s claims in South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia says China\u2019s claims to disputed islands are \u2018invalid\u2019 and are not consistent with UN convention on law of the seaAustralia has declared \u201cthere is no legal basis\u201d to China\u2019s territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea, marking an escalation of recent tensions with Beijing and bringing Canberra further in line with Washington.The declaration, made in a submission to the United Nations on Thursday, comes after the United States hardened its position earlier this month, accusing Beijing of a \u201ccompletely unlawful \u2026 campaign of bullying\u201d to control the sea. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/jul\/25\/australia-declares-there-is-no-legal-basis-to-beijings-claims-in-south-china-sea\" target=\"_blank\">Australia declares &#039;there is no legal basis&#039; to Beijing\u2019s claims in South China Sea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia says China\u2019s claims to disputed islands are \u2018invalid\u2019 and are not consistent with UN convention on law of the seaAustralia has declared \u201cthere is no legal basis\u201d to China\u2019s territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea, marking an escalation of recent tensions with Beijing and bringing Canberra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}