Beijing and Manila need new ideas to manage South China Sea differences: experts


Beijing and Manila need to come up with new ideas to narrow their differences in the South China Sea, according to experts at a virtual conference on Wednesday.

While China-Philippines relations had improved during outgoing president Rodrigo Duterte’s administration, their maritime disputes in the strategic waterway remained a major difference between the two countries, they said.

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