Impartiality Questioned in South China Sea Arbitration: Tribunal President is Japanese, Shunji Yanai

This article focuses on the strong questioning of the impartiality of the Arbitration Tribunal's President, Shunji Yanai (Japanese), by Chinese state media on the eve of the $2016$ South China Sea Arbitration ruling. The article cites Yanai's background, noting he served as Japan's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the U.S., viewed as a diplomatic link between Japan and the U.S. Furthermore, he chaired Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's 'Committee on Reinterpreting the Constitution to Allow Collective Self-Defense,' which Chinese state media described as someone who aided the U.S. invasion of Iraq and is now 'judging China,' thereby seeking to invalidate the fairness of the South China Sea Arbitration.