When asked what the next President should do with Philippines' dispute with China over parts of the South China, former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said against China in United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration filed by the outgoing Aquino administration should be continued by the new administration. As Del, Rosario, known for this activism on the issue, put it in a speech before the Makati Business Club last Friday, the next administration should consider staying the course because apparently the people have approved of the foreign policy that we have embraced. He claimed that a recent survey confirmed the fact that defending the maritime sovereignty in the South China Sea ranked as one of the top issues of the country.

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