Taiwan's major political parties have voiced their strong opposition to the ruling in the South China Sea arbitration and called for safeguarding China's sovereignty.

Taiwan's Kuomintang party said that the South China Sea islands are the inherent territory of China and that China has clear strategic interests there and should not give up any sovereignty.

The Kuomintang called the arbitration "deceitful and shameful", saying that the party was absolutely dissatisfied with it, and will not accept nor recognize it.