The Philippines expresses solidarity with Vietnam, nearly a year after Vietnamese fishermen rescued Filipinos sunk and abandoned by a Chinese ship in Recto Bank.
invalidated Beijing's 9-dash line that covers virtually the entire South China Sea.
Last year's sinking of a Philippine fishing boat by a Chinese vessel in the West Philippine Sea was one of the biggest crises to hit the Duterte administration, which has downplayed a decades-long maritime dispute in exchange for loans and grants from Beijing.The DFA urged countries to instead cooperate with one another as the world faces a crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.
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