{"id":71658,"date":"2016-02-29T04:27:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T09:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=71658"},"modified":"2016-02-29T04:27:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T09:27:20","slug":"philippines-to-china-respect-coming-decision-on-sea-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/29\/philippines-to-china-respect-coming-decision-on-sea-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines to China: Respect coming decision on sea feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15743\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/oil-rig-south-china-sea.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15743\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15743\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/oil-rig-south-china-sea.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/oil-rig-south-china-sea.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/oil-rig-south-china-sea-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014The Philippines has asked China to respect an upcoming decision by an international arbitration tribunal on Beijing&#8217;s claim to most of the South China Sea to show it does not regard itself as \u201cabove the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to criticism by his Chinese counterpart, Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said Monday that Beijing should foster a world order based on international law by heeding the expected decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines asked the tribunal to rule on the validity of China&#8217;s vast claims in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, Wang accused the Philippines of shutting the door on bilateral negotiations over the dispute and called Manila&#8217;s move a \u201cpolitical provocation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Del Rosario said, \u201cIf China does not heed our collective call, does it mean that China considers itself above the law?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014The Philippines has asked China to respect an upcoming decision by an international arbitration tribunal on Beijing&#8217;s claim to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":15743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-71658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-original","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}