CHINA-SOUTH CHINA SEA
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There is renewed uncertainty about the international tribunal’s ruling over territorial claims in the South China Sea after the Hong Kong-based Asia-Pacific Institute of International Law challenged the case that the Philippines has brought against China. The Asia-Pacific Institute of International, headed by Daniel R. Fung filed a 41-page legal document. (Comment: According to reports Daniel Fung is pro-Beijing and a delegate to the CPPCC. He is Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Institute of International Law (APIIL) and as his biography on the Des Voeux Chambers web site demonstrates, he has been a former Solicitor General for Hong Kong SAR and is National Delegate to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) since 2003. Daniel Fung is also a 'funding governor' of the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), a non-government organization created in 2008 with the intent to create “a critical bridge for the two countries by facilitating open and constructive exchange among policy-makers, business leaders, academics, think-tanks, cultural figures, and educators from the United States and China.” Prof. Aaron Friedberg of Princeton University told a conference last year that there is more to the CUSEF than meets the eye. According to The Diplomat newspaper he claims it is “funded by Hong Kong tycoons and state-owned enterprises and is supported and advised by government-linked entities including the Shanghai Institute for International Studies and the PLA Academy of Military Science.”)
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