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Indonesia Crosses the Nine-Dash Line

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Philip Bowring
Sep 20, 2017
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On July 14, Indonesia took a major step forward in confronting China’s South China Sea claims with an announcement that it was renaming a part of the sea in its territory the “North Natuna Sea,” becoming in a single act the most important Southeast Asian nation to stand up to Beijing.

That may have come to many as surprise – certainly to the Chinese, who…

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