QUEZON City, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte said that he is open to the issue of a joint oil exploration with China in disputed territories in the West Philippine Sea, and he had told this to Chinese President Xi Jinping before.
“I have this arbitral award. And I have to push it,” he said as he recalled what he had said.
“Kung gusto n’yo, let’s just develop what’s the oil there. Hati-hati na lang tayo. Anuhin ko naman iyang dagat kung walang… What will I do with the Scarborough Shoal? Swim there every day? For what? To send my soldiers there to die? Nakalutang lahat?”Duterte said.
The President said that he proposed the same with China’s President Xi Jinping during his state visit in Beijing last October.
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