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The South China Sea Arbitration: Illegal, Illegitimate and Invalid

July 12, 2016 by China-EU relations 2 Comments

This article was written for the European Sting by HE Ambassador Yang Yanyi of the Chinese Mission to EU in Brussels. If I have to choose three words to reflect my views of the award of arbitration over the South China Sea disputes unilaterally filed by the Philippines against China, it would be illegal, illegitimate and invalid. […]

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