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I grimace at the thought of how China s apologists, agents and fifth columnists deal with the landmark ruling by the arbitral tribunal with such subjectivity. They either reject or uphold it, depending on how it suits their master s interest. They tend to negate the arbitral award that largely favored the Philippines by citing China s refusal to participate in the arbitration, which, they claim, rendered the proceedings void from the beginning. But the argument is untenable since China, as a state party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos), agreed to be bound by its decisions being the third-party arbitrator in the interpretation of the provisions of the convention.

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