President Marcos expresses his horror at the idea of a secret agreement with China regarding the country's territorial waters. He states that the administration has no knowledge of the alleged agreement between former President Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Marcos says he’s ‘horrified’ by the idea of a secret deal with China over the West Philippine Sea President Marcos on Wednesday said he was horrified by the idea of a “gentleman’s agreement” with China regarding the country’s territorial waters .
“We don’t know if it’s a secret agreement. We don’t know anything about it. There is no documentation, there is no record, there is no– we were not briefed when I came into office. No one even told us that there was such an agreement,” Mr. Marcos said. Panelo squarely contradicted the statement of Duterte’s former spokesperson, Harry Roque, that a verbal deal was reached between the two leaders to maintain the status quo in Ayungin Shoal.“This is what President Duterte said: ‘I did not enter into any gentleman’s agreement whatsoever,’” he added.
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