MANILA: Representatives from the Philippine Embassy in China attended a July 10 forum in Beijing where they reaffirmed the “legal authority” of the 2016 arbitral ruling in favour of the Philippines’ exclusive sovereign rights over the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).
In a statement on Sunday (July 13), the embassy said the forum organised by a Chinese think tank was held two days before the ninth anniversary of the landmark ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, where the Philippines brought its case against China in 2013.
