Three years after the verdict was released, President Rodrigo Duterte will finally raise Manila’s 2016 arbitral victory in his China visit later this month. Duterte deemed it as about time to raise the ruling during his scheduled one-on-one meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, according to Presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo. “There will be a time that I will invoke the arbitral ruling. This is the time,” Duterte said on Monday. The United Nations-backed arbitral ruling from The Hague invalidated Beijing’s sweeping maritime claims over the contested West Philippine Sea.

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