{"id":145869,"date":"2026-02-09T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145869"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:00:09","slug":"will-new-high-seas-treaty-open-a-fresh-front-line-in-south-china-sea-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145869","title":{"rendered":"Will new High Seas Treaty open a fresh front line in South China Sea disputes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe South China Sea continues to act as a lightning rod for competing claims among regional powers. In the first of a three-part series, Laura Zhou examines how a new conservation framework is being leveraged to advance territorial ambitions within these highly contested waters.<br \/>\nAmid simmering tensions in the South China Sea, a likely new legal and diplomatic battlefield has emerged.<br \/>\nTwo decades in the making, the High Seas Treaty, also known as the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3342892\/will-new-high-seas-treaty-open-fresh-front-line-south-china-sea-disputes?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe South China Sea continues to act as a lightning rod for competing claims among regional powers. In the first of a three-part series,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145869"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}