Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-11
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Taiwan’s government is bracing for an award of the South China Sea arbitration case to be issued
The five members of the South China Sea arbitration panel–(from left) Alfred Soons, Rudiger Wolfrum, Thomas Mensah, Stanislaw Pawlak, and Jean-Pierre Cot.
on July 12 by an arbitral tribunal organized by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague.
The arbitration was unilaterally initiated by the Philippines in an attempt to resolve the relevant disputes between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea. The Chinese government has repeatedly reiterated that it would neither accept nor participate in the arbitration.
The South China Sea disputes involve both island and maritime claims among several sovereign states within the region, namely Brunei, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan (the Republic of China), Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
Presidential Office spokesperson Alex Huang on Monday reiterated the three principles regarding Taiwan’s position on the South China Sea issue. [FULL STORY]
