CITING a survey from the Xinhua News Agency, a People’s Daily article has unmasked Shunji Yanai as a manipulator behind the null South China Sea arbitration.

Published on Monday, the article names Yanai, a Japanese diplomat and former president of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), as having played a key role in the case. He appointed four of the five members of the arbitral tribunal on the South China Sea case, and the fifth was appointed by the Philippines.

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