In a series of articles published Tuesday, January 2, a Global Times editorial cast aside as “noise” issues relating to the South China Sea, adding that the dispute was one that “some Western media outlets have tried to play up.” READ:
MANILA, Philippines – As Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. marks his first state visit to China on Tuesday, January 3,the Communist Party tabloid, sought to downplay Manila and Beijing’s dispute in the South China Sea.
In December alone, Philippine defense officer-in-charge Jose Faustino Jr. called out China over its continued presence around features in the West Philippine Sea – the portion of the South China Sea that belongs to the Philippines – after several vessels were found lingering near Iroquois Reef and Sabina Shoal.
In a separate opinion piece, deputy director of the Institute of International Relations in the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Li Kaisheng, instead characterized Beijing as the “biggest victim” in the dispute, saying it “had to take a series of countermeasures” after the Philippines filed a case against China at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague in 2013.
Before departing for China on Wednesday, Marcos said he looked forward to discussing “political-security issues of a bilateral and regional nature,” in what appeared to be a reference to the dispute.
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