China would not be the first case of a country ignoring the verdict of an international court. The International Court of Justice for example once ruled the case Nicaragua v. United States of America. Nicaragua in the 1980s sued the United States for damages for their support for the Nicaraguan anti-communist guerillas. The court ruled in favour of Nicaragua and awarded compensations. The US did not participate in the proceedings after their argument that the court did not possess jurisdiction was rejected, never accepted the verdict and never paid the compensations, calling the court "a semi-legal, semi-juridicial, semi-political body, which nations sometimes accept and sometimes don't".
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Originally Posted by Brother Coa
It will be interesting to see will USA sanction China
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Amusingly the US never signed the UNCLOS which forms the basis for the rule of the Court of Arbitration today.