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This survey covers materials reflecting Chinese practice in 2014 relating to: fundamental principles of international law (five principles of peaceful coexistence); sources of international law (identification of customary international law); China's territorial integrity (Tibet; Diaoyu Island and its affiliated islands; Xisha Islands; Nansha Islands; China-India Memorandum of Understanding on Hydrological Data Sharing on the Yaluzangbu River; China-Pakistan agreement on border ports and their management system); international law of the sea (contracts with International Seabed Authority); outer space law (updated Text of Draft Treaty on Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space and of the Threat or Use of Force Against Outer Space Objects; non-legally binding United Nations instruments on outer space); international cyperspace law (international law in cyberspace); aliens (expulsion of aliens); international human rights law (general positions on human rights; Human Rights Council; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; human rights treaty bodies; right of self-determination; death penalty; rights of indigenous peoples); international humanitarian law (status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949; protection of civilians in armed conflicts; protection of humanitarian workers in armed conflicts; Japan's forceful draft of “comfort women” during WWII; children and armed conflict); international law on disasters (protection of persons in the event of disasters; humanitarian and disaster relief assistance); international law on arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation (nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation; Chemical Weapons Convention; Biological Weapons Convention; Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons; Amended Protocol II to the CCW; Protocol V to the CCW (Explosive Remnants of War); improvised explosive devices; Convention on Cluster Munitions; Arms Trade Treaty; small arms and light weapons); international criminal law (International Criminal Court; scope and application of universal jurisdiction; the obligation to extradite or prosecute (aut dedere aut judicare); immunity of State officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction; UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crimes; ratification of Convention against Terrorism of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization; ratification of the treaties on extradition with Iran and Afghanistan; ratification of the Treaty on Mutual Judicial Assistance in Criminal Matters between China and Argentina; completion of negotiation and initialing on the Treaty on Judicial Assistance in Criminal Matters between China and Sri Lanka; initialing of the Treaty on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters and the Treaty on Extradition between China and Grenada); international environmental law (Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol; protection of atmosphere; updated Measures for the Administration of Import and Export of Ozone Depleting Substances); law on diplomatic and consular relations (effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives); international institutional law (sanctions imposed by the UNSC; reform of the UNSC; UN peacekeeping operations); peaceful settlement of international disputes (The Philippines v. China Arbitration; International Court of Justice).
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