Hong Kong: China in a fresh assertion reiterated that Beijing „has right to develop South China Sea (SCS) Islands as it deems fit“ contrary to what it
Hong Kong: China in a fresh assertion reiterated that Beijing “has right to develop South China Sea (SCS) Islands as it deems fit” contrary to what it said earlier that it would not transform the artificial islands in the contested waters of SCS to a military base. On March 22, China made the assertions regarding it. Recently Wang Wenbin, spokesperson of Chinese Foreign Ministry asserted that China’s deployment of “necessary national defence facilities on its own territory are a right entitled to every sovereign country and it is in line with international law, which is beyond reproach”. What China calls its “own territory” are disputed islands in the SCS, reported The HK Post. China first declined to accept the verdict of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in 2016 on complaints of the Philippines and subsequently used its economic clout to pacify the complaining country, reported The HK Post.
