00:00For today's Manila Bulletin News Break
00:04Vice President Sara Duterte has spoken for the first time on the ongoing territorial conflict between the Philippines and China over the West Philippine Sea
00:14Duterte warned against taking sides in the US-China conflict and instead urging the Philippines to push for the recognition and the implementation of the 2016 Arbitral Tribunal Ruling
00:28She pointed out that the country has already won the case filed under the UN Convention on the Law of Disease or UNCLOS and that the award should be asserted
00:38The Vice President also cautioned against allowing foreign powers like the US to bring in military equipment such as Typhoon Missile System
00:48Instead, she calls for friendship with both the United States and China and other countries like Australia
00:55During her father Rodrigo Duterte's presidency, the Philippines distanced itself from the US and strengthened ties with China
01:04With the former President infamously dismissing the 2016 Arbitral Award as just a piece of paper that can be thrown away
01:25The Vice President emerged from the
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