(By James Kraska, a Senior Fellow in FPRI’s Program on National Security, a  Senior Fellow at the Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia School of Law and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Law and National Security at the University of Virginia School of Law) Who “minds the gap” in the South China Sea? The gap, that is, created in international law concerning the use of coercion or aggressive force and the right of self-defense of victim states. China exploits this gap in the international law on the use of force to compel its neighbors to accept ...