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South China Sea Making Space for Two Elephants

Our Correspondent
Nov 19, 2011
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The very notion that the maritime and territorial disputes in the South China Sea can be resolved with a swish of the pen is almost too good to be true. And it is. But a swish of the pen is exactly how these disputes will end—a one or two-second gesture that can end the grief that has seized Southeast Asia. However, this is unlikely to happen, at least …

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