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Filipino counterpart as Beijing and Manila keep their relations warm amid their continued differences, especially over the South China Sea.
“Both sides will discuss increasing and strengthening cooperation in agriculture, trade, energy, infrastructure, and people-to-people relations, among others,” DFA added.Manalo and Qin are also expected to discuss regional security issues of mutual concern, the DFA said, despite Beijing’s continued aggressive activities in the West Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, which other countries saw as a threat against peace and stability in the region.
Chinese Foreign Ministry officials warned that granting greater access to US troops in the Philippines endangers regional peace and security, as they cited concerns by unidentified “many insightful people in the Philippines” that such move could draw the country “into the whirlpool of a potential conflict in the Taiwan Strait.”
The fourth site is in Balabac Island in Palawan, the island province closest to the disputed Spratlys in the West Philippine Sea, where China and the Philippines have long had overlapping claims. Governor Manuel Mamba remarked at the prayer gathering that “EDCA is just war” amid rising tensions between China and Taiwan, which is just 200 kilometers from the province.
“We were very fortunate we had a governor who can stand for what is right for the province,” he said. Board Member Rodrigo De Asis urged each one to pray and stand in solidarity with the governor as he struggles to block US access to the province. It includes agriculture sector, women sector, academe civil society group, senior citizen’s group, youth sector, and ecumenical group.
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