Foreign Affairs committee  That is my understanding. Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's the case that China does claim much of the South China Sea as its territorial waters. Canada does not take a position on claims by any particular country.

Foreign Affairs committee  I would defer to my colleague, Stephen Randall, who is the director of our oceans law division, on that question. Outside of particular claims under the court in The Hague, as you mentioned, and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, my understanding is that we typically do n

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, the United States, as the member correctly notes, conducts freedom of navigation operations throughout the world, but particularly in the Indo-Pacific region. The joint transit of the Taiwan Strait between HMCS Winnipeg and USS Dewey would not fall into the category of