March 14, 2016

"China will create an 'international maritime judicial center' to help protect its sovereignty and rights at sea, China's top judge said on Sunday.

In a work report at the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress, Chief Justice Zhou Qiang said courts across China were working to implement a national strategy to develop China into a 'maritime power.'

'(We) must resolutely safeguard China's national sovereignty, maritime rights and other core interests,' he said. '(We) must improve the work of maritime courts and build an international maritime judicial center.'

Few details were provided on the judicial center, when it would start operating, its location or the kind of cases it would have jurisdiction over."

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