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dc.contributor.authorHelmersen, Sondre Torp
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-09T09:43:43Z
dc.date.available2022-02-09T09:43:43Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-21
dc.description.abstractThe People’s Republic of China (‘China’) has adopted legislation threatening to invade the Republic of China (‘Taiwan’) if the latter declares independence. Threats of force are prohibited by the UN Charter Article 2(4) and equivalent customary international law. This article proceeds along two apparently contradictory strands. On the one hand, the prohibition probably does not apply to non-State entities such as the Republic of China. One the other hand, the ICJ stated in the Nuclear Weapons opinion that ‘if the use of force itself in a given case is illegal […] the threat to use such force will likewise be illegal’. If the Republic of China declares independence it will become a State, making a PRC invasion illegal. Therefore, the PRC’s current threats should also be illegal. The best way to resolve this apparent paradox is to say that the ICJ’s ‘Nuclear Weapons principle’ must be nuanced.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHelmersen ST. China-Taiwan Threats of Force and the Paradox of the ‘Nuclear Weapons Principle’. International Community Law Review. 2021;23(4):403-426en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1944358
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1163/18719732-12341482
dc.identifier.issn1871-9740
dc.identifier.issn1871-9732
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/23976
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBrillen_US
dc.relation.journalInternational Community Law Review
dc.relation.urihttps://brill.com/view/journals/iclr/23/4/article-p403_5.xml
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleChina-Taiwan Threats of Force and the Paradox of the ‘Nuclear Weapons Principle’en_US
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dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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