​Despite its incursive activities in the West Philippine Sea, China said it has no plans of taking "any inch" of another country's territory as it demanded the United States not to meddle into Beijing's dispute with other countries.

Mao Ning, spokesperson of China's Foreign Ministry, issued Beijing's position amid its sea row with the Philippines ahead of President Xi Jinping's visit to the US, a Philippine ally, for a summit meeting.

"China has made clear on multiple occasions the nature of the South China Sea issue and what our principled position is. China will neither take any inch of territory that is not ours, nor give up any inch of territory that belongs to us," Mao said.

The ministry official said Beijing is committed to settle whatever relevant dispute it has with other countries "through negotiation and consultation."

But she added that Beijing will not "waver in our determination to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity."

China has disputed the Philippines territorial sovereignty over the West Philippine Sea, a part of the bigger South China Sea. China is citing as basis its historic yet unilateral nine-dash line (now 10-dash line), while the Philippines' sovereignty is based on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) that was ratified by both sides.

As the US continues to remind China that any armed attack on the Philippine assets in the waters would invoke its defense treaty with the Philippines, Mao told the US that it "needs to stop creating pretexts and interfering in the disputes between China and relevant countries over territorial and maritime rights and interests."

She also told the US about not containing and encircling China "by exploiting those issues."