A Sea Change:Problematizing the “Gray Zone” in the South China Sea
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Throughout discussions of the geopolitical conflict in the South China Sea (SCS), analysts tend to shy away from using the term "armed conflict" to describe actions taken within the maritime domain.Analysts have relegated such actions to the "gray zone"; a legal ambiguity between the threshold reaching an armed attack and the threshold for reaching an armed conflict.This essay argues that the law of armed conflict (LOAC, commonly referred to as international humanitarian law or IHL) actively regulates more actions in the SCS than some legal analysts let on, and that the LOAC is best suited to regulate actions over that of strictly maritime law.Through an analysis of various incidents between claimants in the SCS, it is revealed that the LOAC effectively lowers the threshold for reaching a state of armed conflict, allowing for more firm arbitrations to be made on the basis of constituting armed attacks rising to the level of armed conflict, as well as determining contributions to an armed conflict.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it