Why All US Attempts to Slice and Dice the South China Sea Will End Badly

Wednesday, July 13, 2016
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
13.07.2016

The territorial dispute in the South China Sea is an artificial creation, designed to create a strategically untenable situation for China in a region crucial for its development, suggests Dmitri Kosyrev, political analyst for Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency.

On Tuesday, the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled that China has no legal basis for claiming historic rights to resources within the South China Sea’s nine-dash line, used by Beijing for its claim over the major part of the sea territory. China, the Court added, also violated the sovereign rights of the Philippines in what it said was that country’s exclusive economic zone.

Predictably, China responded by saying that it does not accept the ‘invalid’ Hague verdict, declaring that it considered the decision “null and void and without binding force.” As for the Philippines’ claims, which led to the ruling, Beijing said that these “have no historical or legal basis.”
Commenting on the political firestorm that has arisen in Asia over the ruling, RIA Novosti political analyst Dmitri Kosyrev wrote that effectively, the decision by the Court of Arbitration could be judged as “simply a pointless effort.” China, he recalled, “had announced in advance that it would not adhere to any decisions on this issue by the Court, confirming as much on Tuesday.”

“However, there is actually a point here,” the analyst suggested. “And that is to discredit any international arbitration or tribunal.”

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