Since the 1992 departure of U.S. forces from bases in the Philippines, Chinese encroachment and provocations in the South China Sea have increased continuously. The lack of U.S. strategic attention and sustained naval presence has opened a maritime governance vacancy that the Chinese Communist Party and its military have gradually filled. Left unchecked, the situation imperils U.S. alliances and trade that have undergirded decades of American prosperity and security.
Department of Foreign Affairs facade (PNA photo by Avito Dalan) MANILA - The Philippine government, through the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), on Friday welcomed the reaffirmation of the 2016 Arbitral Award in a study released by the United States last week. "We welcome the affirmation of the 2016 Arbitral Award by the US State Department's Limits in the Seas No. 150: People's Republic of China: Maritime Claims in the South China Sea," the DFA said in a statement. The 47-page State Department report said Beijing's maritime claims in the South China Sea, "especially considering their expansive geographic and substantive scope, gravely undermine the rule of law in the oceans and numerous universally recognized provisions of international law" reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). One example, it said, is China's claims to sovereignty over maritime features that do not meet the international law definition of a
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