Disputed Territory

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Pascale Harter presents personal insights, experiences and analysis from corresponents and writers around the world. In this edition: the sensitivities and the risks of claiming disputed territory. Stephanie Hegarty's in the Seventh Ward and Marigny districts of New Orleans, exploring how a recent shooting revealed enduring worries (or paranoia?) about race and crime in the city. Some neighbourhoods there are getting more moneyed by the day - but are their new residents at ease with a local African American communities? Meanwhile, China and the Philippines are wrangling over another bit of prime real estate - the ocean waters currently labelled the "South China Seas". Following a complex series of arbitrations and legal argument, Vaudine England reveals why this dispute could be decided on dry land and half a world away - at a tribunal in the Hague.