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Title:
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Duterte administration says it won’t bow to America to get aid
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Author:
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Associated Press
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Source:
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Inquirer.net
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Date:
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December 16, 2016
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Description:
- Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. criticized the United States on Friday for deferring a decision on a major aid package over human rights concerns and said the Philippines can survive without it.
Information Archive on Philippine Foreign Policy
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Title:
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Another sign that the Philippines is cozying up to China
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Author:
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Associated Press
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Source:
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Los Angeles Times
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Date:
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December 11, 2016
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Description:
- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that he has decided to accept an arms deal being offered by China under concessional terms, in the latest sign of cozying relations between the once-hostile neighbors. Duterte said in a speech before troops that he'll ask his defense secretary to send military officials to China to receive the firearms.
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Title:
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Philippine president says he'll accept China arms offer
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Author:
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Associated Press
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Source:
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Yahoo News
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Date:
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December 11, 2016
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Description:
- MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that he has decided to accept an arms deal being offered by China under concessional terms, in the latest sign of cozying relations between the once-hostile neighbors.
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Title:
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Think tank calls views on Duterte's pivot to China 'too simplistic'
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Author:
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Levi A. So
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Source:
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The Philippine Star
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Date:
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December 11, 2016
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Description:
- MANILA, Philippines — Observations that the Philippines is cozying up to China and veering away from allies like the United States (US) and Japan under President Rodrigo Duterte are too simplistic, a think tank director said.
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Title:
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Filipinos glad to see US do West Phil Sea maneuvers but not our government
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Author:
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The Manila Times Editorial
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Source:
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The Manila Times
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Date:
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December 11, 2016
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Description:
- We agree with the Gulf News comment and report last week (on Dec. 8) that the Philippine government “is highly unlikely to allow the US military to use Philippine territory as a springboard for so-called freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) through disputed parts of the South China Sea” quoting Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana.
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Title:
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Taiwan says China air force conducts long-range drills
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Author:
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Reporting by J.R. Wu in Taipei and Michael Martina in Beijing; Additional reporting by Nobuhiro Kubo in Tokyo; Editing by Robert Birsel and Sam Holmes
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Source:
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Reuters
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Date:
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December 11, 2016
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Description:
- Chinese military aircraft on Saturday flew over waterways near Taiwan as part of long-range exercises, Taiwan said, the first such flights since a telephone call between Taiwan's leader and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump irked China.
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Title:
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Warships from US, Japan to arrive in Philippines
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Author:
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Jaime Laude
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Source:
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The Philippine Star
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Date:
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December 10, 2016
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Description:
- MANILA, Philippines - Warships and aircraft on patrol in the South China Sea are arriving in the Philippines from US bases in Guam and Japan, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said yesterday.
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Title:
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Japan Should Reconsider Joining AIIB
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Author:
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Pengqiao Lu
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Source:
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The Diplomat
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Date:
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December 10, 2016
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Description:
- Should Japan join the China-led multilateral financial initiative, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)? The question arises whenever the bank welcomes important new members – Britain, Germany, France, and Italy last year and, most recently, Canada. Despite China’s courting and Japan’s intense domestic debates, Tokyo, along with Washington, has been holding out and betting on a rival initiative – the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – to maintain its role in regional economic cooperation.
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Title:
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Beijing to launch cruise ship in South China Sea for tourism
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Author:
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PTI
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Source:
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Times of India
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Date:
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December 9, 2016
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Description:
- BEIJING: China is all set to launch a new cruise ship in the disputed South China Sea's islands this month to promote tourism, media report said on Friday.
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Title:
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Duterte set to visit Cambodia, Singapore
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Author:
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Christina Mendez
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Source:
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The Philippine Star
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Date:
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December 10, 2016
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Description:
- MANILA, Philippines - President Duterte is set to visit Cambodia next week, with the South China Sea likely to be on the agenda in his meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday.
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Title:
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US will not get help from PHL in sea patrol
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Author:
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Associated Press
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Source:
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BusinessMirror
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Date:
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December 10, 2016
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Description:
- Defense Secretary Delfin N. Lorenzana on Thursday said it is highly unlikely his country will allow the US military to use it as a springboard for freedom of navigation patrols in the disputed South China Sea to avoid antagonizing China. Lorenzana said US ships and aircraft could use bases in Guam, Okinawa or fly from aircraft carriers to patrol the disputed waters.
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Title:
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Trump victory proves Duterte's U.S. policy right – envoy
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Author:
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Paterno Esmaquel II
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Source:
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Rappler
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Date:
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December 9, 2016
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Description:
- MANILA, Philippines – The victory of US President-elect Donald Trump proves Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte right in stopping an excessive dependence on the US, the Philippines' incoming ambassador to China said.
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Title:
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Increased trade with China, Russia to boost 2017 PHL trade performance
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Author:
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Cai Ordinario
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Source:
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BusinessMirror
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Date:
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December 9, 2016
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Description:
- Increased trade with China and Russia are bound to improve the Philippines’ trade performance in 2017, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).
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Title:
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Philippines rearms in wake of heightened tensions in the Pacific
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Author:
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Michael Peel and Victor Mallet
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Source:
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Financial Times
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Date:
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December 8, 2016
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Description:
- The Philippines is rearming itself and strengthening defence ties with its east Asian neighbours in the midst of a security upheaval triggered by superpower rivalries in a region crucial to world trade.
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Title:
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Duterte: Trump wants to fix ‘bad relations’ with PH
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Author:
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Cheng Ilagan
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Source:
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Philippine Canadian Inquirer
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Date:
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December 8, 2016
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Description:
- MANILA, Philippines—Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said that incoming U.S. President-elect Donald Trump wants to fix the bad relationship between the Philippines and the United States.
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Title:
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Why Did a Philippine Warship Visit Vietnam’s Cam Ranh Bay?
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Author:
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Prashanth Parameswaran
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Source:
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The Diplomat
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Date:
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December 8, 2016
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Description:
- A Philippine warship arrived at a key port facility in Vietnam this week as part of a four-day visit to the country, a reminder of the ongoing collaboration in the maritime space between the two Southeast Asian strategic partners.
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Title:
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Vietnam begins dredging on South China Sea reef
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Author:
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SBS
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Source:
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Reuters
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Date:
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December 8, 2016
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Description:
- Activity visible on Ladd Reef in the Spratly Islands could anger Hanoi's main South China Sea rival, Beijing, which claims sovereignty over the group and most of the resource-rich sea.
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Title:
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President-Elect Donald Trump to Unravel the Strategic Rebalancing to Asia?
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Author:
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Renato Cruz De Castro
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Source:
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BusinessWorld
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Date:
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December 7, 2016
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Description:
- DURING HIS LAST trip to Southeast Asia as the President of the United States, President Barack Obama made an emphatic defense of his “strategic rebalancing policy,” dismissing critics who doubted America’s long-term role in the region. A significant component of the strategic rebalancing policy to Asia is the reassertion of US economic leadership in the region through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Trade Pact, an initiative of the George W. Bush administration in 2008 that became a priority of the Obama administration.
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Title:
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Duterte's Most Recent Move In South China Sea Will Strain China-Philippine Relations Again
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Author:
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Ralph Jennings
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Source:
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Forbes
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Date:
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December 7, 2016
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Description:
- China and the Philippines have warmed to each other since President Rodrigo Duterte took office in Manila. In October the president of five months visited Beijing where China pledged $24 billion in aid and both agreed later to discuss how they might work together on a sticky maritime dispute. That dispute, over control of a resource-rich South China Sea tract, had pushed relations to a brink between 2012 through mid-2016. Duterte’s predecessor took China to the world arbitration court, which ruled in July against the Beijing basis for claiming nearly the whole 3.5 million-square-km (1.4 million-square-mile) South China Sea including parts overlapping Manila’s standard 370-km (200 nautical-mile) exclusive economic zone.
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Title:
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PH envoy to China hurdles CA panel
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Author:
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Adrian Ayalin
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Source:
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ABS CBN News
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Date:
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December 6, 2016
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Description:
- A panel of the powerful Commission on Appointments on Tuesday recommended for approval in the plenary the nomination of Jose Santiago “Chito” Sta. Romana, who was tapped by President Rodrigo Duterte to become the country’s ambassador to China. Sta. Romana, an award-winning journalist who had been based in China, told lawmakers he will continue Duterte's diplomatic track with China.