Talk:United States and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Balanced debate?
Hey, is it just me, or is the "Debate" section a little, um, polarized? I refer specifically to:

"It is arguable whether such a review would have revealed the relationship between US UNCLOS accession efforts, environmental legislation previously proposed by members of the 111th Congress and oceans policies adopted by the Obama administration."

This appears to be an unsubstantiated accusation of collusion, corruption, or other malfeasance, indicting persons in several levels of government. I half expected the reference to be F. Mulder. If that isn't what this means, it ought to be re-written to make more sense. Otherwise, it can be moved to the appropriate conspiracy wiki.

66.68.88.116 (talk) 07:03, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Remove: Taxation
Taxation: The license fees and taxes levied on economic activities in the deep seabed area by the ISA would be, in effect, a form of 'taxation without representation'. Citizens would be indirectly taxed through business and governmental activities in the area.

This counts as an argument against ratification of the treaty. Obvious unsourced nonsense. Also overlaps with 'Economics'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.18.110.178 (talk) 20:49, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Spratly Islands
I have been surprised to learn today that the US has not ratified the treaty when I had the impression that the objections against China in/on the Spratly Islands are based on that treaty. The impression is now that the US pick the bits they like and what they dislike applies to others. I am not sure that you should base actions, or start a war, on being selective in this fashion. It is an interesting and relevant topic that should probably feature somewhere. 58.174.193.2 (talk) 03:09, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I thought that's what this page was all about (USA attitude towards UNCLOS)? Incidentally, one of the workarounds commonly used by US negotiators is to propose inserting references to "customary international law, as reflected in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea" into draft UNGA Resolutions, which may suggest that UNCLOS is considered a precedent to be followed, but not bindingly. Note also that the USA has ratified one of the UNCLOS Implementing Agreements - the UN Fish Stocks Agreement, so there is clearly no problem with UNCLOS fisheries-related components. Timonroad (talk) 00:47, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

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