Is Duterte squandering The Hague victory to appease Beijing? | South China Sea News
A few days before Monday’s fifth anniversary of the 2016 ruling in The Hague that rejected China’s historic claims against the most controversial South China Sea, Teodoro Losin Jr., Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines It sounds very celebratory, praising this occasion as “a milestone in the international French corpus”.
“The Philippines is proud to contribute to the rules-based international order,” he said of Manila’s role in challenging Beijing in the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Locsin ridiculed China, saying that this decision “makes Nine segments; And any expectation that possession is nine-tenths of the law. “