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South China Sea source of Philippine-China connection not conflict – Filipino scholar   The South China Sea has been a source of connection between China and the Philippines and not a source of conflict, said a Filipino scholar at the just-concluded 11th Beijing Xiangshan Forum on Friday.  Rommel Banlaoi, president of Philippine Society for International Security Studies, said it was Western colonization that turned the Philippines' positive attitude toward China into hostility.  "We want to go back to our shared path of peaceful coexistence. The South China Sea was not the sea that divided Filipinos and the Chinese. The South China Sea was the source of our connection, the source of our shared history, the source of our shared experiences, but that kind of history was distorted by colonialism," he said.  CHINA CENTRAL TELEVISION (CCTV),CHINA GLOBAL TELEVISION NETWORK (CGTN) VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes  #worldnews  #westphilippinesea  #philippines  #china

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00:00Japan and the United States can play a role in peace and instability in the Asia-Pacific,

00:09but this role should not be used for strategic encirclement of our close neighbor, China.

00:17You know, I'm writing a book.

00:20China and the Philippines live very peacefully for more than 1,000 years

00:26until Spain colonized us, until America colonized us, until Japan colonized us.

00:34We have very good attitude towards China,

00:37but we were colonized by Western powers with strong anti-China attitude,

00:43and now we're having that attitude too.

00:47We want to go back to our shared past of peaceful coexistence.

00:54The South China Sea was not the sea that divided Filipinos and the Chinese.

00:59The South China Sea was the source of our connection,

01:04the source of our shared history, the source of our shared experiences.

01:10But that kind of history was distorted by colonialism.

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South China Sea source of Philippine-China connection not conflict – Filipino scholar

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