Quotable quotes on S China Sea arbitration: tribunal's arbitration is unlawful

Zheng Yongnian, director of East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore

-- The US navy, the strongest in the world, will go wherever it wishes.

There are hostile forces in the United States, and they work together with the Philippines to make the arbitration case.

The United States is not part of the UNCLOS yet, but China has been a part of it.

The Philippine leadership made a mistake and misjudgment.

China and Vietnam have successfully solved the border dispute issue and Beibu Gulf issue. The same principle can be applied in the South China Sea issue.

Juan Carlos Capunay Chavez, Peruvian ambassador to China

-- The base and beginning of any dialogue or negotiation is the bilateral dialogue, because definitely when you go through some bilateral negotiation there are many details the court does not know, which is not part of the problem.

Let's solve the Asian problems through Asian dialogue.

Masood Khalid, Pakistani ambassador to China

-- China advocates a peaceful neighborhood. The South China Sea dispute should be addressed by the sovereign states which are directly concerned through negotiation and peaceful means.

Catherine West, shadow secretary of state for Foreign Affairs of the British Labour Party

-- We need to have a grown-up approach to dialogue. We just need to see the Middle East to understand how hard it is once we go down a particular route to get back to normal life.