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(Opinion) Power game decides post-arbitration order
2016-07-05 09:54:26 source:Global Times
July 5, 2016
"As the result of the international arbitration over the South China Sea
dispute approaches, China is undertaking a military drill from July 5 to
11 in the waters around the Xisha Islands. In Western media reports,
this exercise is happening 'at a sensitive time,' because the arbitral
result will be announced on July 12. Beijing has announced its position
of neither participation in nor recognition of the arbitration.
The
South China Sea dispute has been greatly complicated after heavy US
intervention. Now an international tribunal has also been included,
posing more threat to the integrity of China's maritime and territorial
sovereignty.
Regardless of the principle that the UN Convention
on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) shall not arbitrate on territorial
disputes, the arbitration becomes nothing but a farce. But the US could
use it to impose more pressure on China, causing more tensions in the
South China Sea."
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