UN tribunal orders China to answer PH pleading on SCS

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A UN-backed tribunal has ordered China to respond to a case filed by the Philippines on its territorial claim over the West Philippine Sea, which China disputes. In a statement issued on June 3, the Permanent Court of Arbitration based in The Hague, Netherlands ordered China to respond to the petition filed by the Philippines not later than December 15, 2014. China has refused to acknowledge the designated arbitral tribunal’s jurisdiction to hear the case.

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