President Duterte will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing later this month to discuss a 2016 ruling by the UN-backed Permanent Court of Arbitration that nullified China’s claim to nearly the entire South China Sea, presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said on Tuesday. The ruling on Manila’s challenge to Beijing’s sweeping claim recognized the Philippines’ sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea, waters within the country’s 370-kilometer exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea.

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