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A Colombian Asian expert says the arbitration is severely lacking basis in reality, and that China's sovereignty over South China Sea Islands is indisputable. "For centuries, China has had indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea Islands. There is abundant historic evidence of this...

Ex-ICJ judge: PCA and ICJ are different There has been some confusion about the differences between the Permanent Court of Arbitration or PCA in The Hague - the arbitral tribunal which heard Manila's case about the South China Sea issue - and the International Court of Justice at the United...

65. Third, Nansha Qundao is not “trust territory” either. The Philippines claims that after the Second World War, Nansha Qundao became “trust territory”, the sovereignty over which was undetermined. This claim finds no support in law or reality. The post-War trust territories were all...

Full Text: China Adheres to the Position of Settling Through Negotiation the Relevant Disputes Between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhua) -- The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China on Wednesday published a white paper...

President Xi: Chinese sovereignty will not be affected by so-called arbitration China has issued a government statement reaffirming China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea. And Chinese President Xi Jinping has taken time out during a meeting...

Chinese FM reiterates China's stance on tribunal Foreign Minister Wang Yi has explained China’s stance on the South China Sea issue. He reaffirmed that China neither accepts nor recognizes the decision of the arbitration tribunal. “The statement issued by the Chinese government reaffirmed...

Hong Kong law committee denounces arbitration The Deputy director of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region basic law committee, Elsie Leung, has said the South China Sea arbitration is a violation of both China's territorial sovereignty and of the United Nations Convention on the Law of...

Authorities in Taiwan reject arbitration award Authorities in Taiwan have said they 'absolutely won't accept' the arbitral tribunal verdict. The leader's office said the verdict 'is not legally binding' and that the award has already severely damaged China's sovereign rights over islands in the...

Expert: Arbitration illegal, invalid China has reiterated time and again that it will not participate in or accept the results of the arbitration. Many legal experts and scholars have supported China's stance, saying that the arbitration is illegal and invalid, and has no jurisdiction on this...

Cambodian PM denounces pressures from certain countries Prime minister of Cambodia, Hun Sen, has denounced certain countries for influencing the South China Sea arbitration. He said one country is exerting pressure on Cambodia and other ASEAN countries. "A month ago, an ambassador of a...

China questions fairness of arbitral tribunal Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called the arbitration "a political farce under the pretext of law." And Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin has questioned the credibility of the arbitrators. The Arbitration Tribunal, established in...

Dai Bingguo: China not to be intimidated, even if U.S. sends 10 aircraft carriers to South China Sea The Chinese people would not be intimidated by the U.S. actions, not even if the U.S. sends all its ten aircraft carriers to the South China Sea, said Dai Bingguo, former state councilor of...

Arbitral Tribunal unfairly biased against Beijing Editor: Zhang Jianfeng 丨Global Times In late October, 2015, the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Tribunal issued the Award on Jurisdiction and Admissibility in the Philippines-China arbitration case. The...

Ambassador Liu Xiaoming gives interview to Reuters on the South China Sea On July 4th, the Reuters website carried an article based on a joint interview with Chinese Ambassador Liu Xiaoming on June 9th by the Reuters' global news editor Alessandra Galloni, business and news investigation editor...

Why US Spy Planes Intensified Flights Near Russian Borders © Flickr/ Paul Grayson World17:56 28.05.2016(updated 21:56 29.05.2016) Get short URL 215873752 Last week, a US spy plane flying on the eastern border of Russia put themselves directly in the...

China Confirms Intercepting US Reconnaissance Plane Over South China Sea © AFP 2016/ World11:14 19.05.2016(updated 12:12 19.05.2016) Get short URL 1956120 Chinese fighter jets shadowed a US reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea, but kept a...

China Views US Reconnaissance Flights Over S China Sea as Security Threat © AP Photo/ Charles Dharapak World14:15 19.05.2016(updated 14:28 19.05.2016) Get short URL 046371 US reconnaissance flights over the South China Sea constitute a threat to...

Strange Bedfellows: What’s Behind the US Sale of Weapons to Vietnam © Sputnik/ Sergei Subbotin Asia & Pacific07:16 21.05.2016(updated 07:18 21.05.2016) Get short URL 162974116 Forty years after the US military killed millions of Vietnamese people in...

That means that the US covert hybrid war has entered a new phase, experts note. It is no secret that Washington is trying to use its allies in the Asia Pacific to pressure Beijing into geopolitical concessions. The South China Sea is the issue of a primary importance used by the Obama...

Washington has recently lifted its arms embargo on Vietnam, encouraging Hanoi to add advanced American weapons to its shopping list, raising the question: what is really behind the Obama administration's move? With the US lethal arms embargo being lifted, Vietnam is likely to jump at the...