President Ferdinand Marcos Jr earlier drew Beijing’s ire when he congratulated Taiwan’s new president.
MANILA – The situation in the Taiwan Strait, where China has carried out military exercises, is an “internal matter”, Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro has said, declining to comment on drills that Taiwan has condemned.
China’s military conducted a second day of war games around Taiwan on May 24, with drills to test its ability to “seize power” and control key areas. Beijing has said the exercises were launched to punish Taiwan’s new president, Mr Lai Ching-te. “I will not comment on anything on the Taiwan Strait, as that’s an internal matter for them,” Mr Teodoro told reporters on the sidelines of a Philippine Navy anniversary event.
China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and denounces Mr Lai as a “separatist”. It strongly criticised his inauguration speech on May 20, in which he urged Beijing to cease threats and said the two sides of the strait were “not subordinate to each other”.
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