{"id":30845,"date":"2026-07-14T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/30845\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:59:09","slug":"how-beijing-proposes-to-solve-south-china-sea-disputes-10-years-after-hague-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/30845\/","title":{"rendered":"How Beijing proposes to solve South China Sea disputes 10 years after Hague ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"

A decade after the Hague\u2019s South China Sea<\/a> ruling, Beijing should continue engaging in good-faith diplomacy and explore international mediation, analysts say, arguing that the unenforced decision had failed to curb regional maritime tensions.The assessments came after a weekend of fresh accusations over the 2016 decision by an international tribunal<\/a> that most of China\u2019s claims to historical and economic rights in the South China Sea were invalid, a ruling that Beijing firmly rejected.On Sunday, the ruling\u2019s 10th anniversary<\/a>, a coalition of 14 countries led by the United States and the Philippines called the decision \u201clegally binding and definitive\u201d, and criticised Beijing for refusing to recognise or implement it.<\/p>\n

Beijing responded on the same day by describing US-led military deployments as the \u201cprimary threat\u201d to regional peace in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n

\"USUS Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth (right) confers with Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jnr during a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in Kuala Lumpur on November 1, 2025. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n

It dismissed the Hague ruling as \u201cnull and void\u201d, calling it a politically motivated process that lacked state consent. It has also refused to recognise the tribunal\u2019s authority to hear the case and said it would not implement its findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A decade after the Hague\u2019s South China Sea ruling, Beijing should continue engaging in good-faith diplomacy and explore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20334,1362,87,20336,952,3741,20333,4014,20335,19806,1092,20332,4999,11752,42,540],"class_list":["post-30845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-hague","tag-asean","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-gilberto-teodoro-jnr","tag-hague","tag-hong-kong","tag-huayang-centre-for-maritime-cooperation-and-ocean-governance","tag-indonesia","tag-international-organization-for-mediation","tag-manila","tag-myanmar","tag-national-institute-for-south-china-sea-studies","tag-philippines","tag-south-china-sea","tag-the-hague","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}