Marcos plays balancing act in meeting with Wang

New President Ferdinand Marcos Jr will meet China’s top diplomat to discuss long-simmering disputes in the South China Sea, as he wades into foreign policy dilemmas.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, wearing a native Filipino formal shirt, met his counterpart for talks at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila. He is scheduled to meet Marcos Jr later at the presidential palace and extend Chinese President Xi Jinping’s invitation for him to visit Beijing, a Philippine official said.