While both sides agree to ease tensions and manage differences, Philippine national security adviser Eduardo Ano says the arrangement does not include agreeing to Chinese vessels conducting 'on-site' inspections
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to the ship at the Second Thomas Shoal , as both sides agreed to ease tensions and manage differences. “There’s no such kind of on-site inspection. What the two sides agreed are really a common understanding,” Ano told a forum. “Both sides agreed the tension will be reduced… to prevent skirmishes, anything that may lead to injury, harm to soldiers or to anyone,” Ano said.China claims nearly all of the South China Sea, including territory in the exclusive economic zones of the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei. In 2016, a Hague-based tribunal said China’s sweeping claims had no basis under international law, a decision Beijing has rejected.
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