{
  "id": 3875801,
  "title": "Ten years after award, law and power diverge in South China Sea",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/ten-years-after-award-law-and-power-diverge-in-south-china-sea",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-28T03:25:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/08/ten-years-after-award-law-and-power-diverge-in-south-china-sea/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Ten years have passed since the International Arbitral Tribunal ruled in favor of the Philippines in its maritime case against China. The July 2016 award was hailed at the time as a landmark in international law, affirming Manila’s rights under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Yet a decade later, […] The post Ten years after award, law and power diverge in South China…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}