China's formal government statement; reaffirms the ruling is "null and void and has no binding force," that Beijing "neither accepts nor recognizes it," and criticizes the 14-nation joint statement as "external powers playing up the arbitration out of ulterior motives to contain China"
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Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs via Xinhua · China · 14 nations reaffirm the 2016 South China Sea arbitral ruling on its 10th anniversary as China dismisses the tribunal as illegitimate
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