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20 Chinese J. Int'l L. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/chnint20 and id is 1 raw text is: © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. doi:10.1093/chinesejil/jmab011; Advance Access publication 13 July 2021 Foreword The Twentieth Anniversary of the Chinese Journal of International Law 1. With this issue, the Chinese Journal oflnternationalLaw enters its twentieth year of publication. We are delighted to note this milestone, and we thank the authors, the readers, the reviewers, the editors, the assistants, as well as the publisher and all the partners for their part in making this milestone possible. 2. We started our journey with the aim to become a general journal of in- ternational law, unlimited in scope and viewpoint, while attempting to pre- sent materials and viewpoints from and/or about China and other parts of Asia, as well as the broader developing world at large. So become we have. 3. We also aimed, at the very beginning, to present views that are thought provoking, even if not necessarily correct, and to promote lively debates on all plausible points of view. We believe we have done reasonably well in this regard. Our papers have been taken notice of in various forums, with some visited over 30,000 times on line and some serving as important parts of de- bate or points of departure for serious discussion many years later-15 years in one instance-in serious journals. Of course we can always do better, as was stated in the Foreword to the very first issue of the Journal: We shall try our best to be true to this aspiration, and we appreciate the loftiness of our goal and the heftiness of our task. 4. As the current situation in the world cries out for better play to be given to international law, we are sure that all involved in the Journal are ready to press ahead and make greater efforts to ensure the Journal's greater success in the years to come. The Chinese Journal oflnternational Law 20 Chinese Journal of International Law (2021), 1