China claims Philippine arbitration case a 'political drama' orchestrated by US

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This handout photo taken on April 27, 2021 and received from the Philippine Coastguard on May 5, 2021 shows Philippine coastguard personnel aboard their ship BRP Cabra monitoring Chinese vessels anchored at Sabina Shoal, a South China Sea outcrop claimed by Manila located about 135 kilometres (73 nautical miles) west of the Philippine island of Palawan.

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MANILA, Philippines — China again downplayed the 2016 Hague ruling on the South China Sea, calling it "illegal, null, and void" as it accused the United States of using it as a geopolitical tool.

 

China has refused to recognize the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration on the case that the Philippines filed in 2013 to question the sweeping nine-dash-line. It did not participate in the case either.

 

"We would also like to point out that the South China Sea arbitration case brought by the Philippines was pure political drama orchestrated by the US," Wang Wenbin, spokesperson of the China Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a press conference Tuesday. 

 

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