BEIJING – A day after the Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international court based in the Hague, ruled in favor of the Philippines for the South China Sea dispute, China responded by stating that it still had the right to protect its sovereignty within the region.
Furthermore, China blamed the Philippines for causing trouble in the region. The Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhemin stated that “It is the Philippines that has created and stirred up the trouble”.
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Je Seung Lee 