10 years since South China Sea arbitral award, 14 countries joint statement: China will comply

In response to the 12th anniversary of the 10th anniversary of the award of an international arbitral tribunal that rejected China's territorial claims in the South China Sea, 14 countries including Japan and the United States issued a joint statement, calling the arbitral award final and conclusive and calling on China, which did not accept the award, to abide by it.