China said that she is the victim in the maritime dispute over the West Philippine Sea and that Beijing would never accept any decision by the United Nations (UN) arbitral tribunal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe origin and crux of the disputes between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea lie in the territorial sovereignty disputes caused by the Philippines\u2019 illegal occupation of some islands and reefs of China\u2019s Nansha Islands since the 1970s,\u201d Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said in an official statement posted online.<\/p>\n
China wants one-on-one negotiation<\/p>\n
In another development, China urged the Philippines to ditch its attempt to solve South China Sea territorial disputes with an international tribunal and instead negotiate with Beijing directly, following the arbitration panel\u2019s latest request for input from China.<\/em><\/p>\n The Philippines has asked the tribunal in The Hague to declare China\u2019s claims to virtually all of the South China Sea invalid, saying Beijing\u2019s actions have trampled on other nations\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n China contends the tribunal doesn\u2019t have jurisdiction, and has refused to participate. The tribunal, which operates under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), held a weeklong hearing ending last month to address China\u2019s contention. (Associated Press)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" China said that she is the victim in the maritime dispute over the West Philippine Sea and that Beijing would never accept any decision by the United Nations (UN) arbitral tribunal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}