THERE are no strings attached to China's donation of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines such as the Philippines giving up its sovereign rights to the West Philippine Sea (WPS), Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana insisted on Thursday.

Speaking at the Laging Handa briefing on Thursday, Lorenzana said the government has the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos) and the 2016 tribunal ruling by the UN-backed Permanent Court of Arbitration to prove its claim over the WPS.

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