
- Manila's hyping up of illegal 'arbitral award' nothing but a damp squib
- The so-called 2016 Arbitral Award on the South China Sea was a farce played by the Philippines to justify its ill-grounded claims to Chinese islands and islets in the South China Sea. It was illegal, null and void, and nonbinding from the very beginning, and will remain so despite Manila's renewed attempt to try to revive its dying embers and mislead the international community.