China did not ask PH for concession in exchange for COVID-19 vaccine — Locsin
Locsin made this comment in the context of the brewing situation at the Julian Felipe Reef in the West Philippine Sea where about 44 Chinese vessels are still moored and refuse to leave despite calls from Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana for them to do so.
“There is not even the faintest suggestion from China that the vaccine it generously provides has an exchange in mind be it sovereignty or concession; it is just, Wang Yi said, what good neighbors do for each other. Chinese not heap. It is help extended; no submission expected,” he said in a tweet. The defense chief said the Chinese Embassy’s disregard of the international law, specifically the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to which China is a signatory, is “appalling.”
Lorenzana’s latest tough stance was in response to a statement issued by the Chinese Embassy saying that the Julian Felipe Reef is part of China’s Nansha Islands or the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
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