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China Throws Out South China Sea Rule Book

Beijing hardly bothers with a legal rationale for seizing a U.S. drone

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SHANGHAI—In a tweet, Donald Trump called it stealing.

Many Western legal experts agree with him: The interception and capture of a U.S. Navy drone by the crew of a Chinese warship, they say, was tantamount to an act of piracy on the high seas. The Pentagon labeled the seizure “unlawful.”

On Tuesday, China handed back the craft, a day...

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