President Rodrigo Duterte handled the maritime dispute in the West Philippine Sea “carefully and decisively,” Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said on Friday, a day after the outgoing Chief Executive also ordered the end of talks with China on oil and gas exploration in the disputed waterway. “The China-Philippine relationship has been placed on a better platform and has now been… better than what we experienced the last six years,” Andanar said in a media forum.

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