1.Where are Huangyan Island and Ren'ai Reef? 1
2.When did China discover and name Huangyan Island and Ren'ai Reef? 4
3.How has China developed and exploited Huangyan Island and Ren'ai Reef and exercised effective jurisdiction? 7
4.When did the Philippines make its claim over Huangyan Island? 13
5.When did the Philippine warship illegally run aground on Ren'ai Reef? 15
6.Why do you think the Philippines violates international law by basing its territorial claim to Huangyan Island and part of the Nansha Islands on its geographic proximity? 17
7.Why do you say that the Philippines'Exclusive Economic Zones(EEZ)or continental shelf based claim to sovereignty over Huangyan Island and Ren'ai Reef represents misinterpretation and abuse of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea(UNCLOS)? 19
8.What has happened on Huangyan Island and Ren'ai Reefsince 2012? 21
9.Why did the Philippines unilaterally submit its South China Sea dispute with China for intemational arbitration?What's the basis of the arbitration? 24
10.What is the basis of China's position of non-acceptance and non-participation in the arbitration? 26
Appendix Position Paper of the Government of the People's Republic of China on the Matter of Jurisdiction in the South China Sea Arbitration Initiated by the Republic of the Philippines[7 December 2014] 28