December 15, 2014

"The Chinese foreign ministry was authorized to release last week a position paper of the government on the matter of jurisdiction in the South China Sea arbitration initiated by the Republic of the Philippines.

The position paper reiterates China's firm standing that the Chinese government will neither accept nor participate in the arbitration, and elaborates at length on the legal basis for its position that the Arbitral Tribunal does not have jurisdiction over this case.

The following are China's stands on major issues over South China Sea in 2014."

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