Chen Weihua, deputy editor of China Daily, USA, talked with MYRON NORDQUIST in a telephone interview regarding the South China Sea arbitration case initiated by Manila against Beijing before the Permanent Court of Arbitration, in The Hague, Netherlands.

After it conducted a series of hearings, the five-judge PCA has since been studying whether China’s claim over South China Sea flouts UN Conventions. The following are the interview’s excerpts, made available to The Manila Times by the Chinese Embassy in Manila:

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