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This study aims to analyze China’s policies towards the Arctic region in the context of critical international law. China primarily claims to respect the sovereign rights of the countries of Arctic region and therefore it demands to be respected own rights under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). China considers that the traditional rules of international law are inadequate for the region and this situation also causes serious deficiencies in terms of governmentality in the Arctic. In this context, it is understood that China, which associates the principle of it’s existence in the Arctic with global policies, also indirectly affects the existing legal structure by making bilateral agreements with the countries of the region. As a result, it is thought that this new legal context that China has advocated for the Arctic region will lead to reform of existing international legal mechanisms in the near future.

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