OPINION | Building real confidence: National interest as the best driver of foreign policy By Victor Andres C. Manhit READ:
January 10, 2023 | 5:55 pmter President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.’s trip to China last week, the question on everyone’s mind was: What now? What does this trip mean for our territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea?
I wonder, however: Has not the line of communication been open for years, anyway, at least on the part of the Philippines? Has not our DFA, in fact, been actively engaging with China especially on the issue of the WPS, through the issuance of notes verbale and through meetings with Chinese authorities? The spokesman of the DFA, Teresita Daza, said that as of Nov.
No less than the Senate, just before the previous year ended, passed an unnumbered resolution that denounced China’s continued harassment and intimidation tactics in Philippine maritime territory. Indeed, maritime security is increasingly becoming a point of cooperation among states. The Indo-Pacific region, of which the Philippines — and China, for that matter — is a part, is brewing with both traditional and non-traditional security threats.
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