During the January 2025 iteration of the Bilateral Consultation Mechanism on the South China Sea, the two countries agree to continue a ‘provisional understanding’ to de-escalate tensions in the Ayungin Shoal
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BCM IN XIAMEN. Officials from China’s MFA and the Philippines’ DFA meet in Xiamen for the Bilateral Consultation Mechanism meeting on January 16, 2025. Photo courtesy of the DFA ” — a proposal that was first brought up in July 2024, in the aftermath of a tense June 17, 2024 confrontation between the CCG and elite Philippine soldiers in Ayungin or Second Thomas Shoal.
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