An international court will issue a judgement next month on the Philippines’ case against China over disputes in the South China Sea.

But China’s made it clear that it will have none of it.

Manila is contesting China’s expansive territorial claims in the South China Sea, which the Philippines contends are invalid under international law.

China bases its territorial claim on a so-called “nine-dash line” that it has drawn over most of the resource-rich South China Sea.

Control of the region is valuable because more than $5 trillion worth of global trade passes through the South China Sea each year, and China has been accused of ramping up tensions over control in recent years by building artificial islands on reefs, on which it has added airstrips and other military-style installations.

For now, China’s staying defiant.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/30/beijing-defiant-on-south-china-sea-as-international-court-nears-judgement-on-philippines-case.html