Wednesday, 13 Jul 2016 | 9:59 AM ETCNBC.com
An international tribunal sent a pointed message to China on Tuesday — just because you say something is yours doesn’t mean it is.
This week’s binding decision from the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, Netherlands, dealt a serious blow to China’s claim to most of the South China Sea, a 1.4 million-square-mile body of water that contains the world’s busiest shipping lanes. The ruling was rejected immediately by the Chinese Foreign Ministry — as expected — but it has left Beijing in an exceedingly difficult position where it has to balance an angry, nationalistic population against an international community that expects it to back down. Tiếp tục đọc “South China Sea: Beijing considers next moves after Hague ruling”