President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday renewed their call for “dissipating tensions” in the heavily disputed areas of the South China Sea, during a telephone summit initiated by the Chinese government. “The leaders stressed the need to exert all efforts to maintain peace, security, and stability in the South China Sea by exercising restraint, dissipating tensions and working on a mutually agreeable framework for functional cooperation,” Malacañang said in a statement.

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