Sea of peace, friendship and cooperation, not an arena for Washington's geopolitical games

The acting representative of the United States to the United Nations accused China of using "dangerous and destabilizing ways" to enforce "expansive and unlawful maritime claims in the South China Sea" during an open UN Security Council debate on Tuesday.

Ambassador Dorothy Shea took the debate as an opportunity to hype up the null and void 2016 "ruling" of the Arbitral Tribunal.

Refuting the US representative's groundless accusations, Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the UN, said that China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea have an indisputable historical and jurisprudential basis. He also reiterated China's position on the South China Sea "arbitration case", stressing that China does not recognize the so-called "ruling" and rejects any actions or claims based on it.