The Obama administration is urging China to obey the ruling by the tribunal at the Hauge on the South China Sea and territory.
China has claimed the ruling is null and void, although some suspect Beijing is looking for a different sort of deal or agreement.
At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest repeated that the only stake the U.S. has in this dispute is to uphold the international rule of law.
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OUT: ...world order."
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