China told: keep out of Spratlys
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President Rodrigo Duterte has asked China to stay away from the Philippine claimed the Spratly Islands, Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano told his pre-departure news conference Friday night. Before he took the four-hour flight from Manila to Seoul, where he joined President Duterte on the latter’s first official visit to the Asian country, Cayetano added that aside from Duterte’s request to China regarding lending the Philippines billions of pesos worth of loans, that if Beijing stopped entering the disputed Spratly Islands, both countries could be friends.
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Fabunan, S. S. D. (2018, June 03). China told: keep out of Spratlys. Manila Standard, pp. A1, A2.
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Disputes; Islands; Military operations; Territorial waters; Territoriality; Reclamation; Conferences; United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea; Law of the sea; Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA); Chinese Coast Guard; People's Liberation Army (PLA); China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy; United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS); Duterte, Rodrigo; Cayetano, Alan Peter; Balakrishnan, Vivian
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