China Has No Legal Claim to Most of South China Sea, UN Tribunal Finds

• The Illuminati now has the pretext they need to start their WW3 in Asia. Keep in mind that both the western Illuminati and the Chinese Illuminati have agreed to this coming WW3 (in Asia). It is a war over sovereignty which will claim many lives and will be resolved by the destruction of national sovereignty in favor of a world government ie. Supra-National rule by the Anti-Christ.
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• China Has No Legal Claim to Most of South China Sea, UN Tribunal Finds
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com  
  In a widely anticipated, though purely symbolic decision, just over an hour ago a UN tribunal, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, ruled unanimously in favour of the Philippines in its case against China’s extensive claims in the South China Sea. It found that China’s claim to historic rights in most of the South China Sea has no legal basis, dealing a setback to Beijing which, as the WSJ adds, the U.S. fears could intensify Chinese efforts to establish its control by force. And, as was just as expected, China promptly announced it does not accept or recognize the ruling by tribunal, Xinhua reported moments after the decision.
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  In a second blow for Beijing, the tribunal decided that China wasn’t entitled to an exclusive economic zone, or EEZ, extending up to 200 nautical miles from one island in the Spratlys archipelago, Itu Aba, which is claimed by China and currently controlled by Taiwan. The clearly politically-motivated decision, based on a U.N. convention on maritime law, comes after several years of escalating tension in the region as China has alarmed the U.S. and its allies by using its rapidly expanding naval and air power to assert territorial claims and challenge U.S. military supremacy in Asia.
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  The Philippines case is seen as a test of China’s commitment to a rules-based international order which the U.S. and its allies say has been undermined by Beijing’s recent military activities, including construction of seven fortified artificial islands in the South China Sea. The ruling on Itu Aba is important because the U.N. maritime convention allows countries to build artificial islands in their own EEZs, and all of the seven structures China has built lie within 200 nautical miles of Itu Aba, which Taiwan calls Taiping Island. It also means that China has no legal claim to an EEZ overlapping that of the Philippines.
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  In another damaging setback for Beijing, the tribunal ruled that China couldn’t claim 12 nautical miles of territorial seas around the two largest of the seven artificial islands that Beijing has built in the Spratlys. That means that U.S. and foreign naval ships can legally come within 12 nautical miles of those two structures, Mischief Reef and Subi Reef, which both have airstrips.
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