Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, August 21) — Former Foreign Affairs Secretary and now special envoy of the President to China Teddy Locsin Jr. said the Philippines has no plans of going to war with China.
In a tweet, Locsin said that Manila and Beijing are at peace with each other.
“The Philippines has zero interest in going to war with China which for now it suspects will only prompt the US to offer its good offices to broker a peace between the Philippines and China which is not needed because we are at peace with each other though there maybe something for the US brokering a superfluous and redundant peace. We’re not stupid,” Locsin said.
In a separate interview with CNN Philippines, Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez said that war should never be an option for countries amid changing geopolitical landscapes in the region.“Nobody really wants a major conflict because the alternative is disaster for the entire world,” Romualdez said.The Philippine envoy also refuted the claims of Beijing that the United States was driving conflict in the region.“That is absolutely not true that the involvement of the US with the Philippines has been around for a long time,” said Romualdez.
