Zheng Zhihua, Author at Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative

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Dr. Zheng Zhihua is director of Joint Institute for Maritime Law and History at East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL). He is also deputy general secretary of Shanghai Law and Society Association. Dr. Zheng works in the fields of oceans law and policy. He is also a research fellow of Law and Society Center, KoGuan Law School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He severed as senior editor of china oceans law review from 2010 to 2013 and was a visiting scholar at Göttingen University, Germany, in 2005-2007. He was appointed as Judge of Ningbo Maritime Court in 2004. He got qualification for admission to the Chinese Bar in 1998.

There are lots of criticisms that China’s claims in the South China Sea are ambiguous. For example, it has been criticized for “failing to honor” the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea despite being a signatory to it, as well as for “violating” other international laws on the sea. China has never […]