July 23, 0216

"China has always maintained that negotiation and consultation are the most feasible and effective ways to resolve the South China Sea dispute, the Chinese Embassy to the U.S. said Friday.

Zhu Haiquan, spokesman for the Chinese Embassy, made the statement in a letter to the editors of the Washington Post, which published it Friday.

In reaction to the Post's July 14 editorial entitled 'A fateful choice for China,' the letter said China rejected the July 12 award issued by an arbitration tribunal in The Hague, the Netherlands, because the tribunal 'exceeded its own jurisdiction.'

'Without China's consent, the arbitration initiated by the former government of the Philippines violates the practice in international law that arbitration be premised on each state's consent,' Zhu said."

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