Illegal arbitration rulings have no impact on China’s sovereignty and rights in the South China Sea, Foreign Ministry said

Almaty. July 5. Silkroadnews – Illegal rulings of the international arbitration on the South China Sea have no impact on China’s sovereignty and rights in the South China Sea, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said, “People’s Daily” reports.

Hong Lei condemned the comments by the Philippines’ chief counsel Paul Reichler who said in his recent interview with Reuters that the arbitration over the South China Sea will remove the legal basis of China’s territorial claims there.

Hong Lei said, there is nothing surprising that being a lawyer to the Philippines Mr. Reichler knows the Philippine side’s idea, yet it seems strange to see he knows the decision prior to its announcement.

Such Reichler’s theories prove the arbitral tribunal is nothing but the “voicer” of certain forces, and the filed arbitration is related to sovereignty of islands and reefs as well as to the South China Sea maritime delimitation, Hong Lei added, having noted this punctured Benigno Aquino III administration’s longstanding braided lie.  

The arbitral tribunal as requested by the Philippines has no jurisdiction over the relevant case. And its arbitrament is illegal and invalid. China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights in the South China Sea were built up during a long process of history, said Hong Lei.