Chinese navy holds live-fire drills in South China Sea

The South China Sea arbitration unilaterally initiated by the Philippines will set a “serious, wrong, and bad example” if it is allowed to go through, Chinese Ambassador to Britain Liu Xiaoming said.

Although an global lawyer who has always supported arbitration, he still thought this was a rather complicated case, said Vladimir Duro Degan, an expert of worldwide law and a member of Croatian Academy of Science and Art.

“China, in particular, will face an opportunity to stand within an open and principled regional architecture”, he said, adding that the path of pursuing the peaceful resolution of disputes and the adherence to worldwide law has been chosen in the past by those in China’s position. “And China and the Philippines had never had serious negotiations on this subject back then”, he elaborated. So we will not accept any ruling from the tribunal.

With the South China Sea at a crossroads, there is a degree of uncertainty surrounding how some claimants will act in the coming months, he said but assured the lawmakers that the USA will play an active role to shape the region’s future.

“An award from the tribunal that rejects some of China’s more dubious claims would provide support for the mainstream views of other states in the region”, Cecily Rose, assistant law professor of Public International Law at Leiden University, told AFP.

The Philippines said it had no other choice but to elevate the dispute to global arbitration. -Chinese partnership. There seems to be a clear hope among USA military leaders that South China Sea issues can be resolved without confrontation.

Former Philippine Ambassador Alberto Encomienda, meanwhile, noted that the Philippines and China should have a cordial relationship “for the simple reason that both sides can not be without each other”.

The tribunal accordingly concludes that the ASEAN-China DOC does not, by virtue of Article 28 of the UNCLOS, preclude the tribunal’s jurisdiction.

Talks of joint exploration of the WPS with China, however, did not sit well with a group advocating the enforcement of Philippine sovereignty over the disputed waters.

Manila lodged the suit against Beijing in 2013, saying after 17 years of negotiations it had exhausted all other political and diplomatic avenues. However, it has reasons to refuse to implement the arbitral ruling, Wu said.

Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay, also in a softening of Manila’s stance, said Friday the country was willing to share natural resources with China. A landmark ruling on an arbitration case filed by the Philippines that seeks to st.

Arbitration is widely recognized as a peaceful means of resolving disputes.

The verdict of an worldwide tribunal on a dispute with the Philippines over the strategic waters would be delivered on July 12. It would show to the world that China, with its growing stature, is a responsible member of the global community of nations that plays by the rules it has helped establish.