China and US ‘Need Rules’ for Underwater Drone Clashes

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Nunn School Associate Professor Margaret E. Kosal was interviewed by Hong Kong's South China Morning Post on China's recent seizure of a U.S. Navy underwater unmanned vehicle and international efforts to create norms of behavior for new technology.  

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Margaret Kosal, a security expert at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US said CUES should be “reviewed regularly and expanded as new technologies are employed”, but Yan Yan, a maritime law expert at the National Institute for South China Sea studies, a Chinese government think tank, said underwater drones were in a legal grey area.

Read full article:  http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2058186/china-and-us-need-rules-underwater-drone-clashes

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Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

Categories
Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts
Keywords
margaret kosal, China, underwater drones, security
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  • Created By: Rebecca Keane
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Jan 4, 2017 - 5:33pm
  • Last Updated: Jan 4, 2017 - 5:34pm