(MENAFN) China will be the "loser" if it does not recognise an international court ruling against its territorial claims in the South China Sea, Philippine Foreign Minister said on Tuesday.
An arbitration court in The Hague infuriated China in July when it ruled that China had no historical title over the South China Sea and it had breached the Philippines' sovereign rights.
China has ignored the ruling that none of its claims in the disputed Spratly Islands entitled it to a 320km exclusive economic zone.
Its construction work on reefs there has alarmed other claimants, as well the United States and Japan.
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