BEFORE President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
told the Singapore Shangri-La Dialogue on May 30 that both China and the United States are important to the region, and that we need not choose between them, Filipino war hawks tried to shoot down efforts to de-escalate tension between the Philippine and Chinese coast guards in the Ayungin Shoal. They obviously wanted to see the region burn.
However, he revealed that in early January, he received a telephone call from a certain Colonel Lee, the military attaché at the Chinese Embassy, who reportedly wanted to discuss some ways of reducing the tension attending such missions to the Sierra Madre. Before this, the Chinese and the Philippine coast guards had been involved in water-cannoning incidents, with the Filipinos at the receiving end. Apparently, Carlos saw the proposed de-escalation scheme as a welcome development.
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