Respond to China, tribunal tells PH

The tribunal handling the Philippines’ historic arbitration case on the South China Sea ordered Manila to submit written comments to support its claims against China. The court was referring to China’s position paper detailing its objection to arbitration. Beijing published the paper a week before the December 15 deadline the tribunal set for it to respond to the 4,000-page pleading that the Philippines filed last March. The Hague-based tribunal gave the Philippines until March 15, 2015, to file a “supplemental written submission.” China in turn has until June 16, 2015, to respond to the written comments.

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