Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang was due to arrive in Manila to try to boost ties with the Philippines, which is staging its largest-ever military exercises with the United States. | AFP
This was despite conflicting territorial claims between China and the Philippines in the strategic South China Sea.
“The question is what is China going to offer the Philippines? Is it sticks or is it carrots? If it’s carrots, will it be enough in terms of changing Marcos’ ideas?”His predecessor, Wang Yi, was the first foreign minister to visit Mr. Marcos last year, describing his election in June as “turning a new page” that would create a “new golden age of bilateral relations” between the two countries.
The new bases include a naval base and airport in northern provinces near Taiwan and an air base off an island near the South China Sea
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