A Note on China's Legal and Operational Responses to International Piracy

This article reviews China's responses to international piracy from the legal perspective by looking at China's treaty practices with regard to piracy suppression, China's enhanced overseas naval escort operations, China's domestic antipiracy law in both substantive and procedural aspects, and piracy prosecution under Chinese law. Notwithstanding its contribution to the suppression of piracy, China has a need to improve its domestic laws for more efficient and effective piracy suppression.