Reported speech is indispensable to news reports and the readers can often estimate the extent to which the reporters interfere into the reported speech by examining its modes,sources and reporting verbs. The South China Sea arbitration has attracted lots of interest from the West,especially the United States of America and it has been widely reported by American news media. This paper intends to make a comparative analysis of the reported speech of relevant Sino-American official discourses by New York Tim...