China always insists direct and peaceful negotiation with relevant countries to resolve the South China Sea issue, Chinese experts said on Friday at the Japan's National Press Club.
Foreign officials and experts have echoed China's stance that it has indisputable sovereignty over its South China Sea islands and their adjacent waters.
China on Thursday applauded Russian officials' remarks on the South China Sea issue, calling it a just voice from the international community.
Cambodian Prince Norodom Ranariddh, president of the royalist Funcinpec Party, said on Thursday that the party fully backs China for rejecting the arbitration from an international tribunal over the South China Sea disputes.
Two American aircraft carriers conducted practice drills in the waters not far from the coast of the Philippines islands in recent days. John M. Richardson, Chief of Naval Operations let it be known on June 20 during a meeting at the Center for a New American Security that it was not at all ordinary for the United States to dispatch two aircraft carriers to one single ocean region, and that it represents the commitment of the U.S. to maintain security in this region, and that it also serves as “deterrence” for related countries.
The United States should stop intervention in the South China Sea issue to safeguard peace, stability and security in the region, Karunasena Hettiarachchi, Sri Lanka's secretary to the Ministry of Defence, said.
Fear of destabilization is growing as tension is brewing between Russia and the U.S.-led NATO, whose building-up in the Baltics and the Black Sea has incurred vowed retaliatory actions from Moscow.
The most effective way to solve the South China Sea dispute is to hold diplomatic talks between stakeholders and not overdramatize the issue, according to Italian experts.
Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, an influential political party in Nepal, on Wednesday voiced its support for China's position on the South China Sea issue.
The safest way to solve the South China Sea dispute is to hold bilateral talks between the parties involved and not to internationalize the issue, experts from Russia say.
Two leading experts on international law in Britain have recently published two research papers, both concluding that an arbitral tribunal which allowed the South China Sea case initiated by the Philippines against China to go ahead is not convincing in many respects.
China Tuesday thanked countries for their support on the South China Sea issue.
The way that China and Malaysia have developed bilateral relations while managing differences serves an example that amicable consultation is the only right approach to solve the disputes over South China Sea, a Chinese envoy said Monday.
The Philippines' unilateral move to bring a maritime dispute with China to an international tribunal won't help resolve the problem and the right way forward is to seek settlement through bilateral talks, several foreign experts told Xinhua in recent interviews.
The Chinese Embassy in the United States on Thursday refuted a Wall Street Journal editorial, saying its call for stronger U.S. military response to the South China Sea issue is "reckless and alarming."
Senior officials from China and the ASEAN nations vowed on Thursday to fully and effectively implement the Declaration on Conducts of the Parties in the South China Sea (DOC).