President Rodrigo Duterte said Wednesday he might lift the moratorium on oil exploration at the West Philippine Sea following his meeting with Chinese Premier Li Kequiang who recently visited the country. “It’s one of the possibilities that will happen or can happen or will happen sa [in][the]South China Sea,” Duterte told reporters in a chance interview in Taguig City. “There’s really…it’s an area too big. But I think the players there would really be the Asean members who are also claimants.”

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