View from Manila: Why isn’t China confirming the next South China Sea meeting with Philippines?

In President Marcos' home province, Ilocos Norte, PH and US troops play out an invasion scenario and sink a China-made oil tanker for Balikatan 2024

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Different government sources confirmed that a meeting of the Bilateral Consultation Mechanism on the South China Sea was being worked out for the first week of May 2024, just over three months after the two countries lastThe Department of Foreign Affairs , in a statement on Sunday, May 5, alluded to Beijing’s lack of commitment.

The last meeting, held in January 2024, concluded with a promise to improve maritime communication between both its diplomats and coast guards.

Both Año and Teodoro denied that any agreements were made under the Marcos administration. Año said no agreement would ever be made – “premised or grounded on the illegal, debunked, and fabricated ‘9 or 10 dash line.’”In the dry and dusty ​​La Paz Sand Dunes in Laoag, hundreds of Philippines and American troops will be carrying out the final exercises under Balikatan 2024.

To sink the MT Lake Caliraya, the Philippines will be deploying the newly-acquired C-Star anti-ship missile about the BRP Jose Rizal, the Spike-ER surface-to-surface missile, as well as the newly-tested Spike Non-Line-of-Sight missile system.

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