The Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague did not recognize China’s claim over the Spratly Islands. China is the main polluter of the South China Sea where Beijing’s island-building, dredging, and overfishing causes severe environmental damage.
Protests in the Philippines ' capital Manila on April 9, 2024, condemning China 's aggression against the Philippines in the South China Sea. "The Philippines illegally occupied China 's Zhongye Dao
As part of efforts to assert its sweeping claims to the South China Sea, China has established a military presence on the Paracel and Spratly islands and created artificial islands. China challenged that, alleging the report authors cited “a few satellite images” and stirred up “falsified allegations from years ago” to come to conclusions that are “neither factual nor verifiable.”
In its 2016 ruling, The Hague rebuked Beijing’s sweeping claims to the sea, and found that “China’s artificial island-building activities on the seven reefs in the Spratly Islands have caused devastating and long-lasting damage to the marine environment.” The AMTI also found that through industrial fishing, particularly the practice of bottom trawling, which involves dragging “large, weighted nets along the seabed,” China had contributed to destroying South China seabed ecosystems “by ripping up coral and sponges and stirring up sediment.”In September 2023, Philippine coast guard spokesman Jay Tarriela said the Philippines armed forces had exposed “the severe damage” the Chinese forces “inflicted upon the marine environment and coral reef.
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