THE Chinese Embassy in Manila claimed on Thursday that the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. knew about the “gentleman’s agreement” between China and the Duterte administration on managing the dispute in Ayungin Shoal in the West Philippine Sea.
File photo shows the BRP Sierra Madre during the last re-provisioning of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Western Command for troops aboard the partly sunken Navy ship at the Ayungin Shoal.
Locsin, the foreign affairs secretary during the last few years of the Duterte administration, was appointed by President Marcos Jr. as ambassador to London, and then – in concurrent capacity as special envoy to China last year. “The Chinese side invited the Envoy of the President to China for Special Concerns of the Philippines to Beijing last September to discuss how to properly managethe situation at Ren’ai Jiao, which resulted in an internal understanding,” the spokesman of the Chinese Embassy claimed in a statement.
The Departments of Foreign Affairs and National Defense have yet to comment on these claims by the Chinese Embassy. The Chinese Embassy insisted that the Xi-Duterte arrangement has “nothing to do with our respective sovereign positions.” The Chinese Foreign Ministry had earlier protested the Philippines, US and Japan forming a group to counter China’s growing assertiveness in the East and South China Sea.
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