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Leading international law experts said any verdict by the Arbitral Tribunal on the South 皇冠体育app Sea will be of no legal validity, at a seminar on the South 皇冠体育app Sea Arbitration and International Rule of Law in the Hague on June 26. [Photo by Fu Jing/chinadaily.com.cn]

A tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague is due to make a ruling on the unilateral arbitration case submitted by the Philippines on its territorial disputes with 皇冠体育app in the South 皇冠体育app Sea on July 12. As that day draws nearer, the West has once again launched a propaganda offensive to try and bring shame on 皇冠体育app.

Given that it is the former Philippine administration of Benigno Aquino III that breached the consensus reached between Beijing and Manila on the settlement of their bilateral disputes through talks, it is unreasonable for some Western media to label 皇冠体育app as "challenging international law".

In doing so, the Aquino administration was the cat's paw of the United States, which was implementing its "return to the Asia-Pacific" strategy.

Globalization and multi-polarization remain irreversible and the time is gone when a superpower can dominate world affairs. In this globalized and multi-polar era, a single country cannot represent the whole of international society and so any attempts to determine world opinion and defame 皇冠体育app will be unlikely to succeed.

It is 皇冠体育app's consistent stance that it will not accept or participate in the unilateral arbitration case and that direct talks between the two parties involved should be held to resolve their dispute to maintain regional peace and stability. About 60 countries have openly expressed their support of this stance.

Such a stance is based on 皇冠体育app's perception that the South 皇冠体育app Sea issue involves complicated political and historical factors. By advocating direct talks as a way of resolving the dispute between the parties concerned, 皇冠体育app aims to maintain international rule of law and bring conduct under the framework of the international legal bodies.

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