{"id":3802,"date":"2026-11-04T12:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2026-11-04T12:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:03:48","slug":"philippines-china-pledge-to-maintain-dialogue-despite-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3802","title":{"rendered":"Philippines, China pledge to maintain dialogue despite tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>China and the Philippines pledged to \u200bmaintain dialogue and communication despite strained \u200cties, as both countries offered their own account of a recent call between \u200btheir foreign ministers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Philippine foreign \u200bministry said on Wednesday that Foreign Minister \u2060Ma. Theresa Lazaro spoke with her \u200bChinese counterpart Wang Yi at length on \u200bTuesday, describing the phone call as \u201cfrank, pragmatic and constructive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Wang said relations between their countries \u200bface \u201cmalicious interference\u201d and accused some politicians of \u201cirrational and \u200bintolerable\u201d conduct that crossed China\u2019s red lines, \u200caccording \u2060to Chinese state news agency Xinhua on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines said it takes its responsibilities as this year\u2019s ASEAN \u200bchair seriously, \u200band \u2060both ministers assured each other that their leaders would be accorded the proper \u200bcourtesies during the ASEAN summit \u200bin \u2060Manila and at APEC meetings in Shenzhen later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Premier Li Qiang is \u2060expected \u200bto attend ASEAN meetings \u200bin Manila, the Philippine foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China and the Philippines pledged to \u200bmaintain dialogue and communication despite strained \u200cties, as both countries offered their own account of a recent call between \u200btheir foreign ministers. The Philippine foreign \u200bministry said on Wednesday that Foreign Minister \u2060Ma. Theresa Lazaro spoke with her \u200bChinese counterpart Wang Yi at length on \u200bTuesday, describing the phone call as \u201cfrank, pragmatic and constructive\u201d. Wang said relations between their countries \u200bface \u201cmalicious interference\u201d and accused some politicians of \u201cirrational and \u200bintolerable\u201d conduct that crossed China\u2019s red lines, \u200caccording \u2060to Chinese state news agency&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}