On Monday, China sent out a warning to the Philippines not to engage in further “provocations” at an atoll based in the South China Sea, adding that similar actions have earlier breached China’s territorial sovereignty, broken international law, and also disturbed regional stability and peace.
The atoll has not been the Philippines’ territory’s part, which is specified by several international treaties, China’s foreign ministry asserted via its forceful statement, referring to the atoll as the...