“I SHALL never tire of repeating the declaration that I made from the first day that I took office: I will not allow any attempt by any foreign power to take even one square inch of our sovereign territory,” President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said in his speech delivered before the Parliament of Australia in February 2024.
On July 12, 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the Netherlands ruled in favor of the Philippines, finding that China’s claims including its nine-dash line, land reclamation activities and other activities in the South China Sea (also known as the West Philippine Sea) were unlawful. The arbitration court was constituted under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea which both China and the Philippines ratified.
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