>rejected No, neither PRC or PH positions were "rejected" or "endorsed" because there hasn't been actual legal hearing of the case, in courts with UN/UNCLOS ju

>rejected No, neither PRC or PH positions were "rejected" or "endorsed" because there hasn't been actual legal hearing of the case, in courts with UN/UNCLOS jurisdiction. There's nothing to reject. PCA ruling is not conducted by any official "UNCLOS tribunal". It's done by cosplay PCA UNCLOS tribunal whose determination the UN has not taken position in, which is a polite way of saying it's not legal UN law, aka it's not valid UNCLOS determination. All proponents of PCA ruling has to do is find one formal UN endorsement of their position against PRC, but it does not exist, hence it's not (UN) international law, at least UNCLOS which operates under UN. Regardless, PRC is not subject to optional UNCLOS arbituation clause, they are however subject to UNCLOS ruling via ICJ/ITLOS... until ICJ/ITLOS rules against PRC, which neither have... PRC in UNCLOS compliance. PRC legally can't be non compliant until UN says it is, and UN hasn't. >justified Sure, but not every reunification has as strong (international) legal precedence as PRC... i.e. Chinese territory treated as one country at UN, lack of formal armistice/ratification (legal) ending of the civil war. Hence PRC-TW is legally on ongoing civil war, over legally one country. Hence me saying UN reality has PRC bias. Of course ultimately international laws is not going to prevent PRC from reunifying, but merely point out that PRC can "legitimately" fight TW, it wouldn't be "aggression" it would be domestic "defensive" action. >Taiwan must do The TW that's thoroughly infiltrated by PRC espionage? If PRC is all over US networks, how entrenched do you think they were/are in TWs. Half the reason US pressured to coerce TW into giving up nuclear program is because PRC intelligence was already in TW, and if US didn't take action PRC would. Unless TW nuclear turnkey is faster than PRC hypersonics (7 minutes to any point in island) they won't be able to build credible nuclear deterence, not that nuclear has deterred PRC before (see how she fought with essentailly every NPT nuclear state over issues less important than TW). It's pretty clear what PRC must do reunify, and let's be honest she's actually doing it with gusto while TW is not.