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.