China Slams the South China Sea Decision as a ‘Political Farce’

The good folk of Papua New Guinea and Guinea Bissau are on China’s side. So are the Syrians, the Venezuelans and the Cameroonians. As Beijing dealt with the full force of an international tribunal’s overwhelming rejection of China’s claims to the South China Sea, Chinese state media marshaled everyone from Croatian and Serbian analysts to Russian and Angolan commentators to condemn the July 12 ruling in a case brought by the Philippines as “null and void.