How Beijing proposes to solve South China Sea disputes 10 years after Hague ruling

China should keep engaging in good-faith diplomacy and use International Organisation for Mediation to help ease tensions, analysts say Beijing responded on the same day by describing US-led military deployments as the “primary threat” to regional peace in the South China Sea. It dismissed the Hague ruling as “null and void”, calling it a politically motivated process that lacked state consent. It has also refused to recognise the tribunal’s authority to hear the case and said it would not implement its findings.

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