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            2. O, Saleem. ‘The Spratlay Islands Dispute: China Defines the New Millennium’ [2000] 5 American University International Law Review 3 at 532

            3. Murphy, B. ‘Dangerous Ground: The Spratly Islands and International Law’ [1995] 1 Ocean and Coastal Law Journal 187 at 188

            4. Freedom land was established in 1954

            5. Note 4

            6. Note 4 at 194

            7. At Note 4 at 190

            8. N, Roca. ‘Whose Land is it anyway? : The Territorial and Maritime Dispute over the Spratlay Islands’ [2017] 12 FIUL. Rev 391 at 397

            9. Note 9

            10. At Note 9

            11. C, Rossi. ‘Treaty of Tordesillas Syndrome: Sovereignty Ad Absurdum and The South China Sea Arbitration’ [2017] 50 Cornell Journal of International Law at 231

            12. S, Cheney-Peters. ‘China's Nine Dash Line Faces Renewed Assault’ [2014] Center for International Maritime Security

            13. According to www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/spratly-claims.htm China controls: Curateon Reef, Fiery Cross Reef, Gaven Reef, Hughes Reef, Johnson Reef, Mischief Reef and Subi Reef

            14. D, Andreff. ‘Legal Implications of China's Land Reclamation Projects on the Spratly Islands’ [2015] 47 New York University Journal of International Law & Policy 5 at 857

            15. Note 3

            16. China is the second largest economic power and managed growth of 6.8% in the fiscal year of 2016–2017 https://ieconomics.com/china-gdp-annual-growth-rate

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            29. Note 29

            30. D, Ma. “China Digs It”. [2012] Foreign Affairs (Published 25th April 2012).

            31. M, Velasco. ‘Philippines – China Relations: The Case of the South China Sea (Spratly Islands) Claims’ [2014] 2 Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 6 at 80

            32. Note 14

            33. Note 34 at 31

            34. Note 34

            35. Ibid

            36. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982) Article 55 (thereafter UNCLOS in notes)

            37. Ibid at Article 76

            38. A Calazona, & C, Bantino, . ‘Rodrigo Duterte pledges to jet ski to a disputed South China Sea island’.[2016] Sydney Morning Herald (Published 3rd May 2016) Available at https://www.smh.com.au/world/rodrigo-duterte-pledges-to-jet-ski-to-a-disputed-south-china-sea-island-20160503-goknao.html

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            40. Note 25

            41. ABS-CBN News. ‘Walang gasolinahan’: Why Duterte cancelled jet ski ride to PH Rise'. [2018] ABS-CBN News (Published May 16th 2018)

            42. Filipino National Economic and Development Authority, ‘Philippine Development Plan abridged version 2017–2022‘ [2017] (National Economic and Development Authority: Pasig City) at Page 19–20

            43. Ibid at Pages 2–5

            44. AFP, ‘World Tribunal to Hear South China Sea Case’ [2015] Bangkok Post. Published 30th October 2015.

            45. Embassy of the Peoples Republic of China in The Republic of the Philippines presents its compliments to the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines and, with reference to the Latter's Note Verbale no 12-0211 dated 22nd January 2013 (2013) No.(13)PG-329

            46. Ibid 49

            47. Note 51 Ibid at 141–152

            48. Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China on the Award of 12 July 2016 of the Arbitral Tribunal in the South China Sea Arbitration Established at the Request of the Republic of the Philippines (12/7/2016) Available at: http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/nanhai/eng/snhwtlcwj_1/t1379492.htm

            49. UN Judicial Regime of Historic Waters including Historic Bays. UN Doc A/CN.4/143 (9th March 1962)

            50. Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya), Judgment, ICJ Reports 1982, p. 18 at pp. 73–74, para. 100.

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            52. Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions between Qatar and Bahrain, [2001] ICJ Reports, at. 173, para. 90

            53. UNCLOS[1982] Article 298

            54. Note 42 at P67-68

            55. Declaration of the Government of the People's Republic of China on China's Territorial Sea, 4 September 1958, section 1, reproduced in Department of Policy, Legislation and Planning, State Oceanic Administration (ed), Collection of the Sea Laws and Regulations of the People's Republic of China (4th edn., 2012), 295.

            56. Below note 88

            57. Note 78

            58. Ibid

            59. Below Note 85

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            61. Note 155 at 11

            62. Note 42 at 227

            63. Statement by Ambassador WU Haitao, Head of the Chinese Delegation and Deputy Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, Under Agenda Item “Report of the Secretary General” at the 26th Meeting of States Parties to the UNCLOS (23rd of June 2016)

            64. Id., North Sea Continental Shelf Cases (Federal Republic of Germany/Denmark; Federal Republic of Germany/Netherlands) [1969], ICJ Reports 3, para. 96

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            67. Note 42 at 268

            68. Ibid 99 at 267

            69. Note 42 at para 270 in ref to Gulf of Maine as below

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            71. Note 42

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            73. People's Republic of China, Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf Act (26 June 1998), available at <www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/Law/2007–12/11/content_1383573.htm> also available at <www.un.org/depts/los/legislationandtreaties/pdffiles/chn_1998_eez_act.pdf>.

            74. PCA at 275

            75. Chinese society for International Law, The South China Sea Arbitration Awards: A Critical Study [2018] 17 Chinese Journal of International Law 2 at 530

            76. 42 at Merits Hearing Tr. (Day 2), pp. 8–9;

            77. Note 93 at P118 at Para 272

            78. I, Papanucolopulu. ‘The Land dominates the Sea (Dominates the Land Dominates the Sea’ [2018] Questions of International Law. Available at: www.qil-qdi.org/land-dominates-sea-dominates-sea/

            79. PCA at 286

            80. Note 42

            81. UNCLOS[1982] Article 298(1)

            82. U IBID at Article 121(3)

            83. 42 in Reference to the Written Submissions of the Philippines to the arbitral Tribunal [2013] Numbers 03–06

            84. Note 121 at Article 121(1)

            85. Note 42 at 174

            86. UNCLOS [1982] Article 13(2)

            87. Ibid Article 13(1)

            88. 42 At Para 316

            89. Ibid at para 326

            90. Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia) [2012] ICJ Reports, p. 624 at p. 644, para. 35.

            91. Y, Lyons.‘ High Tide Features in the SCS Aribtration: Distinguishing Small and Insular Land Areas From Seabed Formations, Session 4‘ [2017] Presentation at Centre for International Law in Singapore, 5-6th January

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            93. 122 at Para 1008

            94. 42 at 309

            95. 42 at Merits Hearing Tr (Day 4), p. 11.

            96. Note 118

            97. Note 42 at Para 37

            98. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties [1969] Articles 31–32

            99. Note 135

            100. N, Klein. ‘Islands and Rocks after The South China Sea Arbitration’ [2016] 36 Australian Yearbook of International Law 1 at 3

            101. Note 42 at 484

            102. 42 at 487

            103. 42 at 488

            104. Itu Aba is currently under the occupation of Taiwan but Taiwan is not recognised by the vast majority of the world's nations. Taiwan and its territories are instead considered as a part of China in rebellion under the ‘One China policy’. Although some nations such as the USA and UK only acknowledge the position of the PRC's ‘One China Policy’.

            105. Note 42 at Page 26

            106. Note 42 at 616

            107. Note 42 at 617

            108. Note 42 at 411

            109. SCS Arbitration, Memorial of the Philippines, 30 March 2014, vol. I, paras.5.28–5.33

            110. UNCLOS [1982] Article 121

            111. Note 165 at 83

            112. Nicragua V United States of America [1986] ICJ Reports at 197

            113. Note 85 at 84–84

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            116. Below Note 163

            117. Below Note 164 at 106–107

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            124. Note 155 at 48

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            129. Below note

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            131. Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua V Colombia) [2012] ICJ Reports at 80–81

            132. Ibid note 172

            133. B Murphy. ‘Dangerous Ground: The Spratly Islands and International Law’ [1995] 1 Ocean & Coastal LJ

            134. Note 159 at 54

            135. Note 12

            136. Montevideo Convention [1933] Article 1

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            147. Vienna Convention of the Law of Treaties [1969] Article 53

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            150. Note 4

            151. Note 36

            152. Sovereignty over Pulau Litigan and Pulau Sipadau (Indonesia/Malaysia) [2002] ICJ Reports at 68

            153. Filipino Presidential Decree-Declaring Certain Area Part of The Philippine Territory and Providing For Their Government and Administration. 11th June 1978

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            166. Note 129 at 36

            167. Note 122 at para 505

            168. Note 120 at Article 121(2)

            169. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties [1969] Article 31

            170. 51 at 309

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            173. Note 140

            174. Note 141

            175. Below note 120 at Article 121

            176. Note 138

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            178. Note 224

            179. UNCLOS Article 47

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            183. Note 12 at 232–233

            184. A, Boyle. ‘Further Development of the law of the Sea: Mechanisms for Change’ (???) at 563

            185. Note 97 at P255 at Para 631

            186. Statute of the International Court of Justice [1945] Article 38

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