Title:

 OPINION: ASEAN COC framework affirms Duterte’s policy shift in PH dealing with China

Author:

Ellen T. Tordesillas

Source:

ABS-CBN News

Date:

November 20, 2017

Description:

The Philippines' major shift in foreign policy, which is to talk with China bilaterally on the territorial dispute over Scarborough Shoal, has gotten affirmation from ASEAN with the adoption of the Framework of the Code of Conduct for the South China Sea in last’s week's ASEAN Summit.