The President of the Philippines visits the South China Sea issue on the agenda.
Philippines Office of the President, in a meeting with China's Xi Jinping Jintao that Duterute president is scheduled at the end of this month, has revealed that it intends to on the agenda for the issues surrounding the sovereignty of the South China Sea, which has been shelved until now.
Philippines Office of the President 6 days, a press conference, visited the Duterute President China at the end of the month, when meeting with Xi Jinping Jintao, was totally denied China's claims of having almost the entire jurisdiction of the South China Sea It was clarified that the intention of making an international arbitral tribunal agenda is the agenda.
A spokesman for Cheong Wa Dae said “it is up to the President” and specifically avoided what President Duterte would discuss.
China has not consistently accepted this decision three years ago in the arbitral tribunal decision, and is promoting the construction of a man-made military base in the South China Sea. We have shown judgments with a balance of judgments for the purpose of support.
However, in addition to the fact that most of the economic support exceeding 2 trillion yen agreed with China has not been implemented, in June, triggered by a collision between a Philippine and Chinese fishing boat near the Reed Reef in the South China Sea. In Japan, criticism of President Duterte's attitude was growing.
For this reason, President Duterte seems to have a harsh attitude toward China, to be able to control it, and to aim for appeal to the domestic market.