Duterte, Xi talk for hour after ‘Balikatan’ war game

Presidents Rodrigo Duterte and Xi Jinping

THE PHILIPPINES and China have agreed to exert all efforts to maintain peace, security and stability in the West Philippine Sea by exercising restraint, dissipating tensions and working on a mutually agreeable framework for functional cooperation.

US, Philippines conclude military exercise

THE UNITED States and the Philippines concluded their joint military exercises dubbed as “Balikatan 2022” which involved nearly 9,000 soldiers, the largest ever mounted by the two allies since 1991.