LAST Friday, People’s Republic of China Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jianhua delivered a message which he and his government surely hoped would help to cool the rapidly rising tensions over China’s activities in the West Philippine Sea.

Without preconditions, he said, and without asking Manila to drop its arbitration case against China before a UN tribunal, Beijing would like to resume bilateral discussions with the Philippines in order to reach an amicable agreement on the control and access of the disputed area.

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