The report called China’s reclamation moves in the South China Sea a provocation, and urged Beijing to accept a recent worldwide arbitration ruling.
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The military, police and people should prepare to mobilize to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, he was quoted as saying during a tour of the coastal province of Zhejiang.
China has stoked regional concerns after it constructed man-made islands on some of the features it controls in the South China Sea, building military-grade infrastructure, including airstrips and radar facilities on some of the islets.
He said Japan has hyped up repeatedly the so-called “abnormally close encounter” of Chinese and Japanese military aircraft, but claimed that the video released by the Chinese Defence Ministry in June 2014 clearly showed who was at fault.
“China is poised to fulfil its unilateral demands without compromise”, the government said in the review.
These measures are known several weeks after the global tribunal dismissed China’s claim to most of the South China Sea in an attempt to settle maritime disputes the country has with a number of other nations, including Japan and Vietnam, AFP reported.
“This is definitely a priority issue that we will have to resolve in our talks with China”, Jose said in a phone interview.
A website called “thesouthchinasea.org” was recently launched in Beijing.
According to the new jurisdictional interpretation, which came into effect on Tuesday, foreign vessels and their crews illegally entering Chinese waters – including China’s contiguous zones, exclusive economic zones and continental shelves – had been involved in crimes and could face trial, Professor Wang Hanling of the Chinese Academy of Social Science said.
And while the ruling is only binding between Beijing and Manila, it does, however, set a legal foundation by determining that the rules of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNLCLOS) take precedence over China’s historic claims.
The ambassador highly appreciated the fact that since the emergence of the South China Sea dispute, Russian Federation has in various statements objectively and fairly summed up the situation in the South China Sea and appealed to the worldwide community for justice.
The supreme court also said that Chinese fishermen who violate environmental protection laws in the South China Sea could be prosecuted.
The report said a long conflict would also expose China to internal political divisions, while Japan’s increased military activity in the region could have a major influence.
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The Japanese Government has approved a defense white paper for the present year on Tuesday, summarizing Japan’s defense policy changes and tarnishing China’s normal maritime activities to justify its own militarization, reports Xinhua.
