South China Sea: In defeat for Beijing, Hague to hear Philippine UNCLOS claim○Sydney Morning Herald (2015.10.30)
Amsterdam: An arbitration court in the
Netherlands ruled on Thursday that it has jurisdiction to hear some territorial claims the
Philippines has filed against China over disputed areas in the South China Sea.
In a legal defeat for China, the Hague-based tribunal
rejected Beijing's claim that the disputes were about its territorial sovereignty
and said additional hearings would be held to
decide the merits of the Philippines' arguments.
China has boycotted the proceedings and rejects the court's authority in the case. Beijing claims sovereignty
over almost the entire South China Sea, dismissing claims to parts of it from Vietnam,
the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei.
The tribunal found it has authority to hear seven
of Manila's submissions under the United Nations Convention on the Law of
the Sea (UNCLOS) and China's decision not to participate
did "not deprive the tribunal of jurisdiction".
The United States, a treaty ally of the Philippines, this week challenged Beijing's
pursuit of territorial claims by sailing close to artificial islands China has constructed
in the South China Sea. It welcomed the decision, according to a senior
US defence official.
"This demonstrates the relevance of international law to the territorial
conflicts in the South China Sea," the official said, speaking on condition
of anonymity.
The official added: "It demonstrates that sovereign
claims are not necessarily indisputable and it shows that judging issues
like this on the basis of international law and international practice are a viable
way of, at a minimum, managing territorial conflicts if not resolving them."
The Chinese and US navies held high-level talks
on Thursday after a US warship challenged China's
territorial assertions in the South China Sea, and a US official said both sides agreed to maintain dialogue and follow protocols
to avoid clashes.
After the talks between US chief of naval operations Admiral John Richardson and his Chinese
counterpart, Admiral Wu
Shengli , scheduled port visits by US
and Chinese ships and planned visits to China by senior US Navy officers remained on track, the official said.
State Department spokesman John
Kirby
"Today's ruling is an important step forward in upholding international
law against China's attempts to assert vast and, in my view, questionable claims
in the South China Sea," he said.
The court said it could hear the arguments, including one contending that several
South China Sea reefs and shoals were not important enough to base territorial claims
on. China has been building artificial
islands on reefs in the sea and claiming control
over the waters within a 12-mile (19-kilometre) radius.
On seven other submissions, including that China had violated the Philippines'
sovereign right to exploit its own territorial waters, the court said it would reserve
judgment about jurisdiction until it had decided the
merits of the case.
No date has been set for the next hearings, which will also be closed
to the public.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration was established in the Netherlands in 1899
to encourage peaceful resolution of disputes between states, organisations and private
parties. China and the Philippines are among its
117 member countries.
若目前是小英執政，以台灣尷尬的國際地位來說，該如何面對這塊領域的國際爭議？
回覆刪除俺想，小英或許也提不出比馬政府更好的回應來面對海牙的仲裁 "不承認，不接受"。而最糟糕的是，海牙根本不會聽，也不會把台灣政府當做一個個體來提問與蒐證，因為國際法庭所針對的單位是 以聯合國會員國為準的 ”主權邦國”，而台灣並不在名列表名單上面。
九段線，入憲了沒？
刪除ROC憲法，1946年底通過。
鄭資約，到南沙是在1946年底，12月15日在太平島升旗。
請問，ROC憲法疆域，有無包括南海？
政治人物，假使知道真相，也會因選民無法接受，而選擇保留。
當然，若隨著「過時的宣傳」（ROC是中國合法政府）變本加厲，那就是政治人物的罪過了。
鄭資約，前往南海的軍艦，所謂中業號、太平號，是美艦移交的。
刪除也是軍事受降與佔領。
因此，情形和台灣一樣。
菲律賓背後是美國，所以這應該是美國授意的，雖然它根本沒簽約。不過有趣的點是如果連最大島都被認為不是島嶼，那南海大概就沒有島嶼了，管你中國怎麼填都沒用。岩礁與島嶼最大的差別在於岩礁不能主張兩百浬經濟海域，但對於既有的12海浬管轄不受影響。這樣搞有個好處大家不能再隨便以經濟海域為藉口亂畫範圍，只能各自龜縮到占領的12海浬內玩。
刪除太平島從海陸駐守轉換為海巡就已經證明是有文章的，這道理國防部知道，但誰也不敢說清楚，立院質詢無論朝野從來也沒人敢問個清楚。
有一點算是很有趣的觀察：為何山姆大帝對K佔駐太平島凡70年，一句話也沒吭氣？當然這部落格的常客都知道，太平島與台澎都是K受盟軍委託佔領進而管理的，已經70年了。這樣說來，山姆大帝對太平島的態度就是有如對台澎的態度，一樣的。至於釣魚台，那不在第一號命令之內，所以是另外一回事。
刪除既然太平島K可以佔駐，山姆不鬼叫，為何北京龍爺大興土木，山姆大帝就跺腳路過？原因很簡單，就算K想偷渡太平島給北京爺們，但K不敢，所以70年來還是乖乖聽山姆大帝的話。但北京龍爺們可不一樣囉。假使這次山姆不跳出來路過，恐怕這區域以後就是北京龍爺們的後園池塘了。終究是因為周圍邦國對北京龍爺的印象不佳，觀點是投不信任票，這才是最關鍵導致何以山姆大帝對K與對龍爺是採不同對策的原因。
所以說，南海救台澎，那是俺的一句名言啦。