Hontiveros called on Marcos to review the country’s diplomatic relations with China after it disrespected the Philippines when it claimed that the historic arbitral court victory against Beijing was “masterminded” by the United States.
“If China keeps ignoring the arbitral ruling, the Marcos administration should seriously consider reviewing our national policy toward China,” Hontiveros said.
“As the mastermind behind the South China Sea arbitration, the US ropes in allies to play up the issue each year on the anniversary of the illegal award to gang up against China and to exert pressure, and force China into accepting the award. We are firmly against this,” the Chinese Embassy statement said.
China, the senator added, was only isolating itself from the rest of the world by disregarding the international community’s call on all parties to respect the arbitral ruling.“The world has spoken,” Hontiveros said. “he territorial claims embodied in the so-called ‘nine-dash line’ have no basis in history or international law.”
“I constituted a special team of solicitors to study further courses of legal action with respect to the West Philippine Sea, so that we may guide the DFA and the President about it,” he said in a text message to reporters. “Another challenge and possible victory against the nine-dash line could make China’s narrative almost impossible to deploy,” he said.
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