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And they'd be right; the whole point of the phrase "rules based international order", is that it invokes the good connotations of "international law", while not actually meaning anything like international law, and instead just meaning brutal western hegemony.
i guess it's just another example of people not bothering to look beneath the surface of a soundbite or slogan that sounds good.