PH foreign minister urges neighbors to stand together more strongly in South China Sea

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MELBOURNE, Australia -- Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo urged regional neighbors Monday, March 4, 2024, to stand together more strongly in upholding the rule of law in the South China Sea, where China is forcefully pursuing territorial claims in conflict with other nations. Manalo spoke at a forum on maritime cooperation on the sidelines of a Southeast Asian leaders’ summit in the Australian city of Melbourne at which increasingly assertive moves by China is high on the agenda. Manalo referred to the Philippines’ victory over China in a 2016 arbitration ruling in The Hague, Netherlands, that invalidated Beijing’s vast territorial...