International support for the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) - despite its rejection of the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and article 80 of the United Nations Charter--could be exploited by China to blunt international action following an unfavourable ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration against China in The Hague.
Having boycotted those proceedings - Chinese President Xi Jinping then immediately dismissed the decision--which denied China had any legal basis to claim historic rights to the bulk of the South China Sea: