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The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Quinta Jurecic
Saturday, December 24, 2016, 10:00 AM

The week started with some unexpected early excitement over China’s seizure of a U.S. navy drone in international waters in the South China Sea. Julian Ku kicked off our discussion the weak legal basis for China’s actions. James Kraska and Raul “Pete” Pedrozo also weighed in on what the U.N.

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The week started with some unexpected early excitement over China’s seizure of a U.S. navy drone in international waters in the South China Sea. Julian Ku kicked off our discussion the weak legal basis for China’s actions. James Kraska and Raul “Pete” Pedrozo also weighed in on what the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea has to say about the seizure. (Julian, James, and Pete’s posts also made a surprise appearance on Chinese state television in Shenzen, which did not take kindly to their interpretation of international law.)


Chris Mirasola also reviewed the incident this week’s "Water Wars." And the usual suspects discussed the seizure on Rational Security:



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Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.

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