“The July 2016 arbitral award on the South China Sea dispute does not bind China because it was "never a part" of the legal proceedings in the Permanent Court of Arbitration.”
What Vera Files found
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) states that “[a]bsence or failure of a party to defend its case shall not constitute a bar to the proceedings.” China, having ratified UNCLOS in June 1996, was “still a party to the arbitration” and is “bound by any award” issued by the authorized tribunal, as affirmed by the latter in its Award on Jurisdiction and Admissibility.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 26 July 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 31 July 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- pcoo.gov.phhttps://pcoo.gov.ph/presidential-speech/state-of-the-nation-address-of-rodrigo-roa-dutert…
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/L9xEdC3j3A4?t=7603
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