An international judge who ruled against Britain on the Chagos Islands used to be a Chinese government official who supported ...

Xue Hanqin, a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) who ruled against the United Kingdom in the Chagos Islands ...

The archipelago is home to a joint US-UK military base, a strategically important military asset in the Indian Ocean.

In 2019, as vice-president of the ICJ, Xue Hanqin ruled that the UK should give islands to Mauritius ‘as rapidly as possible’ ...

One of the four is Chinese Judge Xue Hanqin, who is also the vice president of the ICJ, also known as the World Court. The ICJ, the highest United Nations court for inter-state disputes ...

Valerie J. Karplus is a professor in the department of Engineering and Public Policy and associate director of the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University in ...