ON the day the news about the sighting of a Chinese dredging ship on Mischief Reef came out in the media, two other Filipino journalists and I found ourselves having tea with some visitors from Beijing.

You Jianhua, director general of the Coordination Bureau, International Department of Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, said it was his first visit to Manila and it was for a three-day mission to explore the possibility of holding a “high-level regional people’s dialog” within the year.

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