In response to the ruling, the USA has chosen not to outwardly take sides, but has said it supports the rule of law.
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However, the ambassador added that Beijing was committed to negotiate with other parties regarding the South China Sea issues.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed with his Vietnamese counterpart that an arbitration court’s decision this week on the South China Sea must be observed, Japan’s Kyodo news agency said on Friday.
Meanwhile, the government has chose to send hundreds of fishermen to the Natuna Islands in Riau Islands province to assert Indonesia’s sovereignty over nearby areas of the South China Sea to which China has also laid claim. “The tribunal award of 12 July is final and legally binding on the parties to the dispute”, Kawamura told reporters.
The nine- dash on line overlaps with waters claimed by the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam. China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea have been formed over the course of over two thousand years.
U.S. Navy Adm. John Richardson will make his first trip to China as chief of naval operations next week to ease tensions over South China Sea territorial disputes and also get a look at China’s aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, the Navy said Thursday.
Chinese consumers have taken to social media to protest against Phillipine fruit imports, after the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague dismissed China’s ownership claims over the South China Sea. One of the worldwide laws that is referred to by the Foreign Affairs Ministry is the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), a law that does not recognize “historically traditional fishing grounds”. Such act, he indicated, went against the spirit of the rule of law, worldwide law, basic norms governing global relations, and its declaration of not taking sides on issues concerning territorial disputes, obstructing efforts by relevant parties to properly manage and control maritime situation and peacefully resolve the disputes.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has reportedly asked former President Fidel Ramos to help start bilateral talks with China over disputes in the South China Sea.
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But the cautious tone appears to be changing in the Philippines, where there are signs of public disgruntlement with the subdued government response to a decision that most of the country was celebrating. He said he does not want to go to war with China and that he is not interested in letting his country join America’s “free navigation” action.
