{"id":150319,"date":"2023-03-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=915585"},"modified":"2023-03-23T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T00:00:00","slug":"china-philippines-should-properly-manage-differences-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2023\/03\/23\/china-philippines-should-properly-manage-differences-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"China, Philippines should properly manage differences -Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"MediaIntel.Asia\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>(Adds details, background) BEIJING, March 23 (Reuters) -<br \/>\nChina and the Philippines should manage their differences properly, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday, after the first in-person meeting between senior diplomats from the countries since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Bilateral tensions have risen recently over naval disputes in contested areas of the South China Sea and the increasing U.S. military presence in the Philippines.<br \/>\n\"Both sides reaffirmed the importance of properly managing differences through friendly consultations, as well as maintaining the general direction of Sino-Philippine friendship,\" Beijing's ministry said in a statement. It came after Chinese Vice Foreign Minister began a three-day visit to Manila by meeting with Philippines counterpart Theresa Lazaro.<br \/>\nThe talks also touched on aspects where both sides could work more closely, it said, yielding an agreement to deepen cooperation in agriculture, infrastructure, energy and culture. Lazaro said in a statement that almost four years had passed since the last high-level diplomatic consultations between Beijing and Manila and that they should be held more often.<br \/>\nThe Philippines earlier this week announced four new military bases under a defence agreement with the United States that would beef up Washington's military presence<br \/>\nin the Southeast Asian country. The bases in question would be located in various areas of the Philippines, including in a province facing the South China Sea. Some leaders of local governments at the sites opposed Manila's decision, worried they would be dragged into a conflict if one arose between the U.S. and China over Taiwan.<br \/>\nChina's foreign ministry on Wednesday reiterated a warning to regional countries \"vigilant\" and avoid being used by the United States.<br \/>\n(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds details, background) BEIJING, March 23 (Reuters) &#8211;<br \/>\nChina and the Philippines should manage their differences properly, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday, after the first in-person meeting between senior diplomats from the countries s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[934,65,144,194,64,484],"tags":[3472,10324,3610,10450,10315,2240,10322,10328,10329,3839,10336],"class_list":["post-150319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-beijing","category-china","category-news-chinese-law","category-taiwan","category-united-states","tag-chinese","tag-covid-19","tag-diplomacy","tag-manila","tag-media-intelligence","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-pandemic","tag-philippines","tag-south-china-sea","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150320,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150319\/revisions\/150320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}