Respect arbitral ruling, China told

(UPDATE) MARKING the seventh anniversary of the arbitral tribunal ruling that favored the Philippines in its case against China in the South China Sea (SCS), the country's allies called on China to comply with the decision to maintain freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific.

In a forum organized by Stratbase ADRi, Ambassadors Hae Kyong Yu PSM (Australia), Koshikawa Kazuhiko (Japan), Luc Veron (European Union Mission to the Philippines), Michèle Boccoz (France), Laure Beaufils (United Kingdom), Shambhu Kumaran (India), and MaryKay Carlson (United States) reiterated their support for the arbitral award that declared China's expansive claims in the SCS through its nine-dash line policy "has no legal basis."