In the media glare: (From left) Filipino crewmembers Jaypee Gordiones, Felix Dela Torre and Richard Blaze being mobbed by journalists after a press conference in Manila. — AFP
MANILA: China has refused a third party investigation into the June 9 sinking of a Philippines boat at Recto Bank in the West Philippine Sea.
“China does not want a third party,” presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo said in a briefing yesterday.
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