MANILA, Philippines — Beijing trusts that the Duterte administration will come back to the right track of negotiation with China, in spite of that of previous President Benigno Aquino III, which file an arbitration case.
Chinese Foreign Ministry representative Hong Lei focused on that two-sided discourse and meeting is the main reasonable approach to determine the South China Sea dispute.
"We trust that the new Philippine government will work as one with us, veer far from the wrong way taken by the previous government, come back to the right track of having discourse and meeting with China, and endeavor substantial endeavors to enhance and create China-Philippines relations," Hong said in a press instructions on Wednesday.
Hong included that the arbitration case that the Aquino administration documented before the United Nations' Permanent Court of Arbitration illicit, invalid and void from the beginning.
China repeated that it will never acknowledge nor perceive any decision that the universal tribunal will issue.
"What's more, China does not acknowledge any proposition or activity by any nation in view of the decision," Hong said.
The Philippines recorded an arbitration case against China before the arbitral tribunal in accordance with the procurements of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
In the mean time, Hong said that China's memorable rights in the questioned waters fit in with the UNCLOS as it doesn't give a complete rundown of all provisions on the law of the sea.
The Chinese authority brought up that UNCLOS does not bar noteworthy rights, refering to its rehashed reference to "memorable inlets and notable titles."
"China's notable rights in the South China Sea are shaped along the course of history, and are firmly established on chronicled and jurisprudential grounds. These rights are ensured by worldwide law including UNCLOS and creek no refusal," Hong said.
Manila asserts part of the South China Sea, as a component of the Philippines' exclusive monetary zone. It calls that divide the West Philippine Sea.
Hong demanded that the UN tribunal has no locale over the case and is not in a position to make any remark.
The international tribunal, which prior concluded that is has locale, is relied upon to issue its decision on the Philippines' arbitration case against China on July 12.
Duterte has said that the nation is prepared to converse with China if the international tribunal decides for the Philippines.
