For the first time, Vice President Sara Duterte gave her insight on the ongoing territorial conflict between the Philippines and China over the resource-rich West Philippine Sea, warning the Philippines against taking sides in the United States-China conflict and advising it instead to “force the recognition and the implementation” of the 2016 Arbitral Tribunal award.
00:04Vice President Sara Duterte has spoken for the first time on the ongoing territorial conflict between the Philippines and China over the West Philippine Sea
00:14Duterte warned against taking sides in the US-China conflict and instead urging the Philippines to push for the recognition and the implementation of the 2016 Arbitral Tribunal Ruling
00:28She pointed out that the country has already won the case filed under the UN Convention on the Law of Disease or UNCLOS and that the award should be asserted
00:38The Vice President also cautioned against allowing foreign powers like the US to bring in military equipment such as Typhoon Missile System
00:48Instead, she calls for friendship with both the United States and China and other countries like Australia
00:55During her father Rodrigo Duterte's presidency, the Philippines distanced itself from the US and strengthened ties with China
01:04With the former President infamously dismissing the 2016 Arbitral Award as just a piece of paper that can be thrown away
