Ouyang Yujing, Director - General of the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Commented on the South China Sea Arbitration Case

On October 21, 2016, Ouyang Yujing, Director - General of the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of PRC, was invited to come to our school to deliver a lecture entitled "Responding to Philippines’s South China Sea Arbitration". Senior Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences Hu Dekun presided over the report, and hundreds of teachers and students attended the lecture.

Ouyang Yujing first introduced the reason for Philippines’ filing of the South China Sea arbitration case and the main demands of Philippines in the arbitration. Ouyang Yujing then analyzed the reason why the case has violated international law and why the arbitral tribunal has no jurisdiction. In addition, he also stressed the reason why China should not accept, recognize nor participate in the arbitration case, and the necessary measures China should take to respond to the arbitration case. (Wuhan University Press   Chen Lixia)