“Is the Spratlys ours? The Arbitral Tribunal didn’t say anything about that.”
What Vera Files found
It is true that the arbitral tribunal did not decide on which state has “ownership” over the entire Spratly Island Group, nor over the high-tide maritime features in it. The South China Sea arbitration dealt only with the nature of the disputed maritime features in the area, and the maritime entitlements they are able to generate under UNCLOS. Having found that none of the features claimed by China in the Spratly Island Group was capable of generating its own EEZ, the tribunal declared certai...
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In short
Sass Rogando Sasot made this claim around 12 April 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 28 April 2021, 16 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Sass Rogando Sasot has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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