Bill Hayton is an Associate Fellow in the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House, United Kingdom.
He is also the author of ’The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia’ (Yale, 2014) and the editor of the academic journal ‘Asian Affairs’.
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Articles by Bill Hayton (2)
China’s Claim on the South China Sea: How Many Dashes Make a Line?
Bill Hayton
China’s new map depicting its claims to the South China Sea has provoked some fierce reactions from its neighbours. The fact is that the “new” map is anything but.
How to Solve the South China Sea Disputes
Bill Hayton
This Long Read argues that Southeast Asian states have an interest in recognising each other’s de facto occupation of specific features and then presenting a united position to China. The historical evidence of physical acts of administration suggests that, with some important exceptions, the current occupiers of each feature have the best claim to sovereignty over it.