We will definitely make a strong counterattack, and China responds to Canada: if we continue to provoke the country | South China Sea | China
The spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in Canada expressed a solemn stance on the statement of the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the South China Sea arbitration case
On July 11th, the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on the 7th anniversary of the so-called South China Sea arbitration award, criticizing China's legitimate and legitimate position on maritime issues and smearing China's related maritime law enforcement activities. The Chinese side is strongly dissatisfied and firmly opposes this.
I emphasize once again that the so-called South China Sea arbitration case has serious errors in factual determination and legal application, violates international law such as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and the award made is illegal and invalid. China does not accept or participate in arbitration cases, nor does it accept or recognize the award. The South China Sea arbitration case is a political farce manipulated by the United States with the aim of slandering and suppressing China, which is well known to the world.
China is a staunch defender and practitioner of the international rule of law. As a founding contracting party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, China has always adhered to a correct understanding and conscientious implementation of the Convention, and has taken practical actions to defend its authority and integrity. China insists on resolving the South China Sea issue through friendly negotiations and consultations, and maintains maximum restraint in safeguarding sovereignty and rights in the South China Sea. With the joint efforts of China and other countries in the same region, the current situation in the South China Sea remains generally stable. China and ASEAN countries have fully and effectively implemented the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea and actively promoted consultations on the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea. We are willing to continue to handle maritime disputes with relevant countries through negotiation and consultation, maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea, promote regional prosperity and development, and firmly safeguard our own territorial sovereignty and maritime rights.
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In recent years, the United States has frequently sent advanced ships and aircraft to the South China Sea to show off their power, illegally breaking into China's territorial waters and airspace, as well as the airspace near islands and reefs. They have pressed other countries to choose sides on maritime issues, using the banner of upholding the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to maintain their own maritime hegemony, and even inciting regional division and confrontation. The fact has repeatedly shown that it is the United States that is engaging in coercion in the South China Sea. Canada disregards facts, justice, and international law, and strives to follow the United States to contain China in maritime issues. It has sent warships to the South China Sea multiple times with American ships, crossing the Taiwan Strait and willingly acting as an accomplice to the United States in seeking hegemony. The Canadian side also slandered the Chinese side for engaging in coercion, which is despicable.
China urges Canada and other countries outside the region to respect the efforts of regional countries to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea, stop abusing international law, stop using force or threatening to use force, stop provoking and causing trouble in the South China Sea, stop interfering with the atmosphere of the upcoming series of East Asian cooperation foreign ministers meetings, stop provoking regional country relations and creating camp confrontations, abide by international law centered on the United Nations Charter, respect China's sovereignty and rights in the South China Sea, and not continue to follow the wrong path. If Canada continues to act recklessly and provoke, China will definitely make a strong counterattack.