Despite recent diplomatic incidents with Manila, the governments of China and Israel have expressed solidarity with the Philippines over death and destruction wrought by Typhoon Pablo.
Seeking to soften the impact of the report of a deadlock, China’s ambassador to the Philippines on Tuesday said that tensions between the two countries had eased after last week’s high-level talks on their territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).
China on Sunday welcomed the Philippine government’s decision to order home its two vessels that had been facing off with Chinese ships at Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).
It’s the Philippines, not China, that has been aggravating tensions in the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, which Manila calls the West Philippine Sea, according to the Chinese Embassy in Manila.
The Philippine government has flown to China four family members of a 35-year-old Filipino drug trafficking convict scheduled to be executed tomorrow.
The Supreme People’s Court of China’s decision affirming the drug trafficking conviction and death sentence on a Filipino is “final,” according to the Chinese Embassy in Makati City and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).
