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China Throws Out South China Sea Rule Book

Beijing hardly bothers with a legal rationale for seizing a U.S. drone 

VIDEO: China has in the past taken pains to anchor its challenge to the U.S. in the South China Sea within a broad framework of legality. The seizure of a U.S. drone was different.

Photo: CCTV

By ANDREW BROWNE  Biography @abrownewsj Google+ Andrew.Browne@wsj.com
Updated Dec. 20, 2016 4:41 a.m. ET

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SHANGHAI—In a tweet, Donald Trump called it stealing.

Many Western legal experts agree with him: The interception and capture of a U.S. Navy drone by the crew of a Chinese warship, they say, was tantamount to an act of piracy on the high seas. The Pentagon labeled the seizure “unlawful.”

On Tuesday, China handed back the craft, a day after a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman insisted that the sailors were simply gathering unattended property, as one might “pick something up from the street.”

That explanation beggars belief. China has crossed a new threshold. It once found it necessary to justify its assertive actions in the South China Sea within a broad framework of legality—however flimsy, contrived or contested its formulation of law appeared to the U.S. and its allies.

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