China inform in advance of a “decisive response” towards the provocation in the South China Sea as the tensions rises in the disputed islands after an international tribunal’s ruling that their claims are invalid.
“Do not turn the South China Sea into a cradle of war,” vice foreign minister Liu Zhenmin told reporters in Beijing, as he described the ruling as waste paper.
China respond furiously to Tuesday’s decision which favors the Philippines towards the sovereignty rights over the sea while hurling partial warnings to the United States and other nations.
“If anyone wants to take any provocative action against China’s security interests based on the award, China will make a decisive response,” foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said.
China claims almost all of the South China Sea even waters approaching the Philippines and other Southeast Asian Countries, which can be use as military purpose and approximately $5 trillion worth of shipping trade p(–foul word(s) removed–) yearly.
China justifies their claims by stating that they are the first to discover, named and exploited the sea. Meanwhile the ruling sided the Philippines by saying that China’s claim had no legal basis within the nine-dash map.
The tribunal confirms that China had operate unlawfully by violating the Philippines’ sovereign rights within its exclusive economic zone with regards to waters extending 200 nautical miles from the Philippine coast.
He stressed that the arbitration unilaterally filed by the Philippines during the administration of former president Benigno Aquino III violated international law and called it a “political farce under the cloak of law.”
