Nurturing ties: Xi and Duterte during the opening ceremony of the 2019 Basketball World Cup in Beijing. — AP
MANILA: The Philippine president has acknowledged he’s short of solutions to press China to adhere to Manila’s arbitration victory in their South China Sea disputes after he said Chinese President Xi Jinping told him flatly: “We will not budge.”
President Rodrigo Duterte spoke for the first time about his talk with Xi about the thorny disputes in a televised news conference on Wednesday night where he was asked what move he would take next. Duterte, who has nurtured friendly ties with China, met Xi in Beijing last week.
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