International law defines statehood and provides the rules of war, but ambiguities abound in the case of Taiwan.
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Ben Saul is Challis Chair of International Law at The University of Sydney, an Associate Fellow of Chatham House in London, a past Whitlam and Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, an Associate Fellow of the International Counter-terrorism Centre in The Hague, and a United Nations legal adviser.