US ratification of the UNCLOS

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Phead128 said:
Even if UNCLOS is ratified, U.S. cannot use it as a premise to help Phillipines over the South China Sea dispute, since the US-Phillipines MDT and UNCLOS explicitly excludes "territorial disputes" as an item to be disputed for the law to be invoked...

Plus, no nation in their right mind with the strength and world wide national interest in the seas like US, China, or even tiny nations like Phillipines to give up their sovereign territorial rights by ratifying the UNCLOS like this... It has to explicitly exclude "territorial disputes"...
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Reading some of the other countries' declarations when signing on board to UNLCOS, many of them have renounced settling territorial disputes through an international court. Some of them declared this from the onset, others have made amendments, all allowed within UNCLOS.
 
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