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IN the middle of the brouhaha over the water-cannoning incident, the Chinese foreign minister blithely suggested that our government should meet China halfway to defuse tensions. This would be OK, a friend has suggested, if China has stopped coveting what President Rodrigo Duterte did not surrender in his kowtow to Beijing during his watch.The better reply is to say firmly and seriously:The time has clearly come to separate the brass tacks from baloney in the South China Sea dispute.
The result of this legal proceedings was the historic arbitral ruling on July 12, 2016, by which China's claims of historic rights and privileges were ruled as invalid and unsubstantiated. All the Philippine claims in its court action were affirmed.I believe it's time for President Xi Jinping and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to bring the South China Sea disputes to the United Nations.
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