MALACAÑANG on Thursday shrugged off China’s accusation that the Philippines is testing the mainland’s “resolve to fight,” stressing that Manila’s primary objective in filing a “memorial” with the International Tribunal on the Laws of the Sea (Itlos) is to get “maritime entitlement” over its territories in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).
Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. explained that China’s refusal to participate in the arbitration does not worry them because nobody can dictate on China.
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