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US flags China as a maritime outlaw
http://atimes.com/atimes/China/CHIN-01-250814.html
US flags China as a maritime outlaw
By Peter Lee
Aug 25, '14
A think tank called CNA recently issued a 140-page report titled "China versus Vietnam: An Analysis of the Competing Claims in the South China Sea" authored by Raul (Pete) Pedrozo. [1] It provides a further legal rationale for growing US efforts to inject itself into South China Sea exclusive economic zone (EEZ) disputes on behalf of Vietnam and against the People's Republic of China.
A few reasons why attention should be paid.
First, the institution.
CNA is described as a non-profit corporation. A fuller description would be a "US Navy analytic division dating to 1942 that works exclusively for and is funded exclusively by the US government but was corporatized in the 1990s so it could dip its beak into non-DoD government work through a division called the Institute for Public Research".
