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Topics Covered: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora. US counters China’s sea claims: Context: In the backdrop of China’s growing assertiveness in the hotly contested waters, the US has said that Beijing’s expansive claims in the South China Sea have “no basis in international law”. What’s the issue? Beijing has overlapping territorial claims with several Southeast Asian states in the South China Sea. - China claims almost all of the resource-rich sea, through which trillions of dollars in shipping trade passes annually, with competing claims from Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan...
