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If it were a gentleman’s agreement, it would always have been an agreement to keep the peace in the South China Sea,” Duterte said. House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, Marcos’s cousin ...
In 2017, the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte accepted a gentlemen's agreement with China to maintain the status quo for the South China Sea while both sides tried to strengthen their relations. [21] [22] Under the status quo agreement, no construction materials would be allowed to fortify the Sierra Madre to avoid escalations. [23]
In April 2024, Philippine president Bongbong Marcos said he was convinced that former president Rodrigo Duterte had made a secret deal with China. Duterte admitted on April 11 that he had made a "status quo" "gentleman’s agreement" not to repair or reinforce BRP Sierra Madre. Food and water were allowed to be brought to the sailors, but ...
In 2009, the Philippines and China signed the Joint Action Plan for Strategic Cooperation, a five-year agreement to increase cooperation in all areas. [10]: 158 In 2016, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese president Xi Jinping created the biannual Bilateral Consultation Mechanism on the South China Sea, a process allowing the two nations to peacefully manage disputes and ...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping soon to discuss a 2016 arbitration case over the South China Sea, an aide said on Tuesday, as domestic pressure builds ...
China's President Xi Jinping told former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to continue to promote cooperation between the two countries, after bilateral relations cooled with Duterte's ...
Former president Duterte acknowledges the existence of a "gentleman's agreement" that he made in office with Chinese President Xi Jinping on maintaining a "status quo" in the South China Sea that disallowed repairs to the BRP Sierra Madre grounded in Second Thomas Shoal, but denies making any concession to China. [92]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the navy to put up 'structures' to assert sovereignty over a stretch of water east of the country.