The administration of President Donald Trump was among 14 countries publishing a joint statement on Sunday to mark the tenth anniversary of a ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague that found China’s claims to nearly the entire South China Sea invalid.
In the statement, the countries reminded the Chinese Communist Party that the international tribunal ruling was “final, legally binding, and definitive” and that it found “there is no legal basis for China’s expansive maritime claims.” In addition to the United States, the Philippines, which was the plaintiff in the dispute at the Hague, signed the statement along with Japan…
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