China Hopes for Progress with New Philippine Government

China said Tuesday that it hopes to work with the Philippines' new government to resolve territorial disputes in the South China Sea, but insisted the onus is on Manila to lower tensions. Beijing hopes the Philippines will "meet China halfway, taking concrete measures to properly deal with the disputes so as to put the ties of the two countries back on the track of sound development,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said at a daily news briefing.   Lu said that...

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