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China’s Surprising Refusal to Criticize the Legality of the U.S. Attack on Syria
Julian Ku Fri, Apr 7, 2017, 7:44 PM
In its public statements and actions, the Chinese government consistently has supported a restrictivist reading of the U.N. Charter that limits the use of military force against another state to situations of self-defense or with authorization of the U.N. Security Council. In research I have been doing for a larger project on China’s use of international law, I have found no instances of the Chinese government’s departure from this legal principle.