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China on Sunday called on the Philippines to stop projecting Beijing as a “threat” to the Philippines, maintaining that it has always been “committed” to peace in handling territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
The Chinese Embassy in Manila issued the statement in response to remarks by Philippine Ambassador to Washington Jose Manuel Romualdez during a diplomatic gathering on Feb. 28. He said that while the United States sees both the South China Sea issue and a potential Taiwan conflict as “serious concerns,” he believes the “real flashpoint is the West Philippine Sea,” given “all of these skirmishes happening there.
