WORLD_ Rubio Calls On China to Abide by Hague Court Ruling on South China Sea

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Rubio Calls On China to Abide by Hague Court Ruling on South China Sea 

Australia, Canada, the EU, Japan, and New Zealand have all issued statements marking the ninth anniversary of the landmark ruling.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 20, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times 

Frank Fang 
Reporter 
7/14/2025|Updated: 7/14/2025 


U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has condemned China’s communist regime for continuing to defy a 2016 international arbitration ruling that rejected its sweeping claims in the South China Sea, as well as its increasingly hostile actions against its neighbors. 

In a statement on July 12, which was the ninth anniversary of the landmark ruling issued by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Rubio called on the Chinese regime to “abide by the 2016 arbitral ruling and to cease its dangerous and destabilizing conduct.” 

Rubio said that the ruling, which was a unanimous decision delivered by a five-member panel of the court, is “legally binding on both the Philippines and China” and a “useful basis for peacefully resolving disputes between parties in the South China Sea.” 

The 2016 ruling rejected the Chinese regime’s “nine-dash line” claim to about 85 percent of the South China Sea’s 2.2 million square miles, saying that Beijing’s assertion was inconsistent with the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). 

“Since the 2016 ruling, China has ignored the decision, continuing to assert unlawful and expansive maritime claims and taking increasingly aggressive actions against its neighbors,” Rubio said. 

“Beijing’s expansive claims directly infringe on the sovereign rights and jurisdictions of Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia, and undermine peace, stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific.” 

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