VIENTIANE – The foreign ministers of the Philippines and China met in Vientiane on Friday evening and agreed to cool simmering tensions in the South China Sea in line with their earlier interim agreement on resupply missions at Manila bases in the disputed waterway.
China’s Wang Yi and Philippines’ Enrique Manalo spoke an hour after attending a dinner organized for top diplomats present in Laos for the annual meeting of top diplomats from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its partner countries.
