The two officials met on the sidelines of the 2023 Munich Security Conference, a forum on international security, which is currently ongoing.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo and Ambassador Fu Ying, one of China’s top diplomats, discussed the latest incidents in the contested Ayungin Shoal between the two countries’ Coast Guards as they vowed to further strengthen the relationship despite the maritime tensions.
“I had a broad and candid exchange w/ Amb. Fu Ying, Vice Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of National People’s Congress of China. We talked about the latest incidents around Ayungin Shoal,” Manalo wrote on Twitter on Saturday, Feb. 18. “It was a pleasure to have had a thoughtful dialogue with one of China’s distinguished diplomats & a former ambassador to PH @DFAPHL,” Manalo said.Fu was China’s former ambassador to Manila from 1998 to 2000.
In 2022, she reaffirmed that China cannot accept what she has categorized as an “unfair conclusion” by the Arbitral Tribunal in The Hague on the competing claims in the resource-rich South China Sea.
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