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Abstract “Singapore Test” is a practical issue for China to properly handle the South China Sea dispute.The issue is rooted in Singapore’s sensitiveness to the freedom of navigation and overflight in the South China Sea, its balanced diplomacy preference and deep reliance on international norms and organizations. However, Singapore has also taken its toll when posing the test for China. Consequently, limitations of the “Singapore Test” are obvious, and such a test also provides an opportunity for China to rethink and adjust the South China Sea policy. In the future, China should not only actively address the judicial challenge and un ambiguously make claims of interests in South China Sea, but also spare no effort to expand pragmatic cooperation with Singapore and jointly speed up negotiation of the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea.
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2019, Vol. 27 
