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Tim Kaine: “How would the U.S. efforts to address China's land reclamation activities in the South China Sea and also to defend…”

On the recordApril 26, 2016
How would the U.S. efforts to address China's land reclamation activities in the South China Sea and also to defend freedom of navigation in that part of the world be more effective if the Senate ratified the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea?
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Kaine inquires about the impact of ratifying the U.N. Convention on U.S. actions in the South China Sea.

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