Haiwen Zhang, Ph.D. (1995), Peking University, is Lead Expert, Innovation Team of Marine Strategy and Law, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), and Director-General, China Institute for Marine Affairs. She has published many monographs and articles on the law of the sea. Yao Huang, Ph.D. (2002), Peking University, is Professor at Sun Yat-sen University School of Law. She has published monographs and many articles on public international law, and is co-author of Sovereignty and Maritime Rights in the South China Sea: A Jurisprudential Study (2023, in Chinese). Lijuan Xing, S.J.D. (2012), Ph.D. (Econ., 2007), is Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University School of Law. She has published five monographs in the USA, the Netherlands, and Hong Kong SAR as well as book chapters and law journal articles in diverse jurisdictions.