China has rejected the Philippine proposal to freeze all provocative actions in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), where Beijing has constructed an airstrip and a school and drilled for oil.

Yi Xianliang, the deputy director of the Boundary and Ocean Affairs Department of China’s Foreign Ministry, said the proposal is unhelpful and that it would undermine plans to conclude a more binding Code of Conduct (COC).

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