Earnest also urged the parties not to use the ruling as an opportunity to engage in escalatory or provocative actions.
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The judges of the global tribunal on Tuesday took the side of the Philippines in its arbitration case against People Republic of China, and rejected the economic rights of the latter in the South China Sea, including “nine-dotted line” claim.
The case before The Hague tribunal, filed by the Philippines, had centered on the applicability of China’s vaguely drawn “nine-dash line” South China Sea boundary under UNCLOS.
“It will certainly intensify conflicts and even confrontation”, Cui said in Washington on Tuesday.
“It is the Philippines that has created and stirred up the trouble”, said Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin, in introducing the paper.
To persuade Manila to return to talks, China could offer to share fishing and oil and gas resources with the Philippines and finance railway projects in the Southeast Asian nation, analysts say.
“In fact, it has immediately forced many of China’s moderates to become hawks”.
Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay said that over the next few days, the government will take steps to ensure that the tribunal’s ruling is “peacefully implemented”.
The tribunal found that China’s large-scale reclamation and construction of artificial islands has caused severe harm to coral and violated the country’s obligation to preserve fragile marine environments.
“Whether we should set one up in the South China Sea is determined by the degree of risk we receive”, said Mr Liu.
“If one side plays brinkmanship and thinks the other side will back down and you miscalculate, things can get out of hand quite quickly”. Russel says the US hopes it will be a diplomatic one, in which all the claimants in the region’s ferocious territorial disputes can be involved.
“Pakistan believes that maintenance of peace and security is the collective responsibility of all parties to the South China Sea”, said Zakaria.
“The Philippines has exercised restraint and didn’t issue an aggressive statement”.
“The verdict is the first act”.
The ruling and China’s defiance of it have brought China, the United States, Southeast Asia and the concept of an worldwide order based on accepted rules of behaviour to a risky crossroads, with one path leading to negotiations but the more likely one toward growing tensions in a politically and economically vital area, administration officials and outside experts said. In its ruling, which employed even tougher language than most expected, the tribunal cut the legal heart out of China’s claim that the sea is, in effect, a Chinese lake.
All eyes will now turn to China and the Philippines.
Victoria, a K-pop girl group f (x) member of S.M. Entertainment, posted a map that includes the South China Sea in Chinese territory on her Instagram and Weibo accounts Tuesday.
“It’s a country that is more than anything sensitive to being humiliated, especially at the hands of what it sees as European imperialists”.
Such a zone makes it mandatory for all aircraft passing through it to follow certain rules.
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Asserting what China sees as historical rights in the South China Sea has been a massive priority for President Xi Jinping, said Shen. But every variation has provoked others in the region, by signaling China’s willingness to encroach on perceived fishing rights (as with Indonesia), rights to exploit resources (as with Vietnam), or their own rights to the land-features in question. These bad memories still affect us. The tribunal said that any historical resource rights China may have had were wiped out if they are incompatible with exclusive economic zones established under the United Nations treaty, which both countries have signed.
