Right after the Hague court’s ruling against China’s South China Sea claims, Chinese censors began working overtime to control the conversation online.
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The court concluded there was no legal basis for China’s nine-dash line territorial claim, which encompasses approximately 85% of the South China Sea.
“It is the first time that the idea of provisional arrangements has been proposed as a policy”, said Zhu Feng, executive director of the China Center for Collaborative Studies of South China Sea of Nanjing University.
State-controlled media has tried to discourage protestors.
“Of course, in light of the ruling, this is rubbing salt in the Philippines’ wound”, Poling added.
However, the global tribunal sided with the Philippines in ruling China’s claimed historic rights to resources within the so-called nine-dash line had no legal basis.
China has also seen the U.S. a key challenge to its authority in the strategic region as the latter has conducted navigation patrols close to islands held by the former, annoying and compelling it bolster its own military presence there, thereby escalating the issue further.
His talks with Mr Wang and Mr Yasay would be the first since an worldwide tribunal ruling on a case brought by the Philippines found “no legal basis” for China’s claim to historic and economic rights over nearly all of the South China Sea.
“Most of Beijing’s ire is directed at Japan and the U.S., and the … issue was discussed during the visit of U.S. Chief of Naval Operations John Richardson to Beijing”.
Richardson’s comments Wednesday, July 20, 2016, follow several fractious encounters between the two sides’ ships and planes in and over the disputed South China Sea.
A senior Chinese official on Tuesday brushed off calls for a boycott of the Philippines after an worldwide arbitration court found for Manila in its dispute with Beijing over the South China Sea.
Analysts say the H-6K, which is capable of delivering nuclear-tipped missiles across Asia, was specially created to counter the US Navy’s carrier battle groups.
Wu was quoted as saying that any attempt to intimidate China by flexing military muscle “will only backfire”. China claims nearly all of the South China Sea, but its claims are fiercely contested by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.
These protestors reached for the closest American symbols they could find – KFC restaurants and Apple iPhones.
The waters have become a staging ground for the growing U.S.
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Three State-owned enterprises from the shipping, tourism and construction sectors will cooperate to equip up to eight cruise liners and offer diversified sightseeing services to tap the travel market in the South China Sea.
