A file photograph of the South China Sea. /VCG
China has vowed to take agency and decisive measures in response to Japan’s current provocative remarks and actions concerning the so-called South China Sea arbitration award.
Shi Yong, minister on the Chinese embassy in Japan, lodged solemn representations and powerful protests to Kanai Masaaki, director-general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, over the Japanese international minister’s remarks hyping the tenth anniversary of the so-called South China Sea arbitration award and Japan’s joint assertion with different nations on the difficulty.
The Chinese facet careworn that the so-called arbitration award violated primary rules of worldwide legislation, undermined the authority and seriousness of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and critically challenged the worldwide rule of legislation.
The so-called award has no bearing on China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and pursuits within the South China Sea underneath any circumstances, the embassy mentioned, reiterating Beijing’s long-standing place that it neither accepts nor acknowledges any claims or actions primarily based on the unlawful ruling.
The embassy additionally criticized Japan’s involvement within the South China Sea subject, saying that Tokyo has no proper to touch upon it given its personal historic file.
Japan’s continued meddling and its political manipulation of the unlawful award represent a problem to the post-war worldwide order and the rule of legislation, the Chinese facet mentioned, including that such actions undermine peace and stability within the South China Sea, run counter to the widespread pursuits and can of regional nations, and have drawn severe concern from the worldwide group.
China will firmly reply to Japan’s provocations and resolutely safeguard China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and pursuits, the embassy mentioned.
Source: CGTN