President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. has accepted an invitation from Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit Beijing in January next year, hoping to bring up the country's position...
President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. has accepted an invitation from Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit Beijing in January next year, hoping to bring up the country's position on territorial disputes in the South China Sea . The Office of the Press Secretary said that the state visit will be in the first week of January. 'President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
Marcos earlier expressed his intent to discuss the South China Sea issue with Xi on the sidelines of the 40th and 41st Association of Southeast Asian Summit and Related Summits in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Philippines and China have been in a long-standing maritime dispute as Beijing claims almost the entire South China Sea, which overlaps with the West Philippine Sea. Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei also have competing territorial claims in the South China Sea.
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