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In this transcript, the Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Liu Xiaoming, discusses the results of the arbitration case that pitted the territorial claims of China and the Philippines in the South China Sea. (The ruling was announced in July 2016.) Basically, Xiaoming 1) outlines why China insists on treating the decision - which ruled in favor of the Philippines - as null and void; 2) lays out the rationalizations Beijing is using to reject the decision; and 3) clarifies the policy that China will adopt toward the region in the future.