“The Philippines did not get any remedy from the 2016 arbitral award in prohibiting China from conducting activities in the South China Sea.”
What Vera Files found
As a party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), China is still bound by the 2016 arbitral ruling that invalidated its nine-dash line claim, which covers almost the entire South China Sea. The award also declared certain maritime features in the area within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Under UNCLOS, a state (in this case, China) must “comply with the laws and regulations” that the coastal state (the Philippines) has adopted within its EEZ.
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In short
Rodante Marcoleta made this claim around 7 August 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 31 August 2021, 24 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Rodante Marcoleta has 14 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 13 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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