China's Xi meets Duterte in Beijing amid South China Sea tensions

Record ID: 1429157

  • Title: China's Xi meets Duterte in Beijing amid South China Sea tensions
  • Date: 29th August 2019
  • Summary: BEIJING, CHINA (AUGUST 29, 2019) (REUTERS) DELEGATIONS INCLUDING CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING AND PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE AT MEETING XI SPEAKING DUTERTE LISTENING CHINESE DELEGATION SEATED DUTERTE SPEAKING XI LISTENING PHILIPPINES DELEGATION MEETING UNDERWAY DUTERTE SEATED CHINESE FOREIGN MINSTER, WANG YI, EXCHANGING DOCUMENTS AND SHAKING HANDS WITH PHILIPPINE FOREIGN SECRETARY TEODORO LOCSIN JR., EXCHANGING DOCUMENTS, POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPH XI LOOKING ON DELEGATIONS EXCHANGING DOCUMENTS POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS
  • Embargoed: 12th September 2019 14:01
  • Keywords: China Philippines Duterte Xi Jinping South China Sea tensions dispute relations
  • Location: BEIJING, CHINA
  • City: BEIJING, CHINA
  • Country: China
  • Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001AU9RK93
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte met China's Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday (August 29) for talks during which he is expected to discuss a 2016 arbitration case over the South China Sea.
    Duterte is under growing pressure at home to push back at China's growing maritime assertiveness.
    After avoiding the issue for three years, he has vowed to raise with Xi the arbitration ruling that invalidated China's claim to sovereignty over most of the South China Sea.
    The trip comes amid a recent rise in tension on multiple fronts, with Chinese vessels challenging energy assets and sea boundaries of Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines.
    Duterte has faced sharp criticism during his first three years in office for not pressing China to abide by the historic arbitration win, preferring instead to curry favour with Beijing.
    That ruling in international law invalidated China's claim, based on its so-called nine-dash line, to historic sovereignty over most of the busy South China Sea waterway.
    In exchange, Duterte received vague pledges of billion-dollar investment, most of which have yet to materialise.
    (Production: Wang Shubing, Parniyan Zemaryalai)
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