
China urged the Philippines to cease 'grandstanding' and protect bilateral relations, following an incident where a Chinese military attaché delivered a note rejecting the 2016 South China Sea arbitration award to Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro at a forum in Seoul.
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The 2016 international arbitration ruling denied most of China's expansive claims in the South China Sea, a decision Beijing rejects.
“We urge certain people in the Philippines to stop this grandstanding and lying, and to protect China-Philippine relations and the peace and stability in the South China Sea,” Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said.
Teodoro read out parts of the handwritten note, which included Beijing’s rejection of the arbitration and a statement that the award in 2016 denying most of China’s claims in the South China Sea, was “illegal, null and void”.
The forum organiser later said the note came from a military attache at the Chinese embassy in Seoul, who passed it to a forum staff member and asked that it be given to Teodoro, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.
Teodoro said the move was impolite to their South Korean hosts.

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