{"id":16032,"date":"2021-07-25T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16032"},"modified":"2021-07-25T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T14:00:05","slug":"south-china-sea-calls-to-honour-hague-ruling-5-years-on-but-beijing-digs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=16032","title":{"rendered":"South China Sea: calls to honour Hague ruling 5 years on, but Beijing digs in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFive years ago, Beijing blithely dismissed an international tribunal\u2019s landmark ruling that found its sweeping claims in the South China Sea had no legal basis.Liu Zhenmin, China\u2019s then foreign vice-minister, said the decision handed down at The Hague in July 2016 was \u201cjust a piece of waste paper\u201d that China would not recognise or enforce. \u201cYou may chuck it in the bin, leave it on the shelf or put it in the archives,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is null and void, and has no binding force.\u201dAlthough the United\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3142456\/south-china-sea-calls-honour-hague-ruling-5-years-beijing-digs?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFive years ago, Beijing blithely dismissed an international tribunal\u2019s landmark ruling that found its sweeping claims in the South China Sea had no legal&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16032"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}