Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has flown to Beijing for a three-day state visit to meet with Xi Jinping and other top officials in China
hilippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. flew to Beijing on Tuesday for a three-day state visit to meet with Xi Jinping and other top officials in China to improve bilateral ties.
China is one of the Philippines’ major trading partners, accounting for some 20% of the Southeast Asian nation’sMarcos’ visit comes amid unresolved territorial disputes in the South China Sea. While not mentioning the sea row explicitly, Marcos said he looks forward to discussing political-security issues “of a bilateral and regional nature.”
Xi has long ignored a 2016 ruling from a U.N.-backed tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, that invalidates China’s sweeping claims over the waterway, where an estimatedin global commerce passes through each year. The Philippines, which lodged the complaint, decries China’s construction of military outposts and reclamation of artificial islands to assert its presence and control in the South China Sea.
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