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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Beijing, November 6 (Xinhua) — China expresses strong dissatisfaction and resolute protest against certain countries' promotion of false narratives on maritime issues, baseless attacks, and groundless accusations against China, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Thursday.
The defense ministers of the Philippines, Australia, Japan, and the United States met on the sidelines of the ASEAN and Dialogue Partners Defense Ministers' Meeting on November 3 and issued a joint statement on maritime issues.
As Mao Ning noted at a regular press briefing, the situation in the East China Sea and South China Sea is currently generally stable. She emphasized that relevant parties should respect the efforts of regional countries to properly resolve maritime issues through dialogue and consultation and maintain peace and stability in the region, and should stop using maritime issues to provoke disputes and escalate tensions.
Regarding the "South China Sea arbitration," Mao Ning said it is nothing more than a political farce disguised as law, aimed at destabilizing the situation in the South China Sea and profiting from it. The so-called arbitration award is illegal, invalid, and non-binding. China has neither accepted nor recognized it from the outset, the diplomat recalled.
“The Asia-Pacific region is an outpost for cooperation and development, not a chessboard for geopolitical games,” Mao Ning emphasized, noting that factional politics and bloc confrontation will not bring peace and security, nor will they contribute to stability in the region or the world as a whole. –0–
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