Analysis has focused primarily on the law of the sea, the legitimacy of China’s expansive claims that are now being challenged by the Philippines in the Permanent Court of Arbitration (with a long-awaited decision expected on July 12), and much debate over US policy and ASEAN’s response.
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Manila is contesting China’s historical claim to about 90 percent of the South China Sea, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
With regard to territorial issues and maritime delimitation disputes, China does not accept third party dispute settlements or any imposed solution, he said.
Observers have voiced hopes that the chilly relations between Beijing and Manila will end after Rodrigo Duterte took office as the 16th Philippine president on Thursday.
In Washington, the State Department said the U.S.
On the basis of bilateral agreements and the DOC, China and the Philippines have chosen negotiation as the means to resolve their disputes rather than arbitration.
“For all the disputes concerning the South China Sea, negotiation is the only choice and the only viable approach”.
China regularly holds military exercises in the South China Sea.
The Philippines challenged the validity of China’s vast territorial claims in the 2013 case it filed against Beijing.
Beijing has consistently insisted that it is within its right build whatever it wants on the island, since they have belonged to China since ancient times.
But the country will still face consequences from the first major worldwide ruling on the South China Sea. -China Strategic and Economic Dialogue on June 5-7 in Beijing.
The Chinese military is set to hold exercises near disputed islands in the South China Sea amid tensions with the Philippines that has filed a complaint at an global court.
China has repeatedly said it will ignore the verdict despite pressure from the USA and its allies to comply. And a communiqué issued by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization foreign ministers’ meeting recently opposed the “internationalization of the South China Sea” and called for safeguarding against “interventions from outside forces”.
Taiwan has no way of knowing what the ruling will say, but the government has prepared for various scenarios, and Taiwan will make clear its stance when the ruling is announced on July 12, Lee said. Even though the court at the Hague is expected to rule against Beijing, its scope is limited. China’s stand contrasts with what the Philippine government has stated that it would fully respect the PCA’s verdict.
“There are a lot of nuances we do not know as yet”, he said. However, Manila says that in either case the total territory would be far less than what Beijing now claims under the scope of the Nine-Dash Line.
Separately, the United States has informed China that it will refrain from taking specific actions on the South China Sea before Beijing hosts a summit of the Group of 20 major developed and developing nations in September, according to a diplomatic source.
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Yi Xianhe, chief expert at Wuhan University Institute of International Law, said the tribunal has not fully considered China’s viewpoints, and the legal analysis of such points has been insufficient. “It was presented by the Philippines but has been directed by the United States”. “It is definitely also responding to the recent American warships patrolling in the South China Sea”.
