"I am chair of ASEAN and I have to carry the voice of the ASEAN [...] I have to tell the truth that everybody is worried,” Duterte said in a press briefing Thursday night after meeting with the Filipino community. “It is not wrong for me to tell China that you have already placed heavy artillery there. "China must realize that even if we’re friends, everybody is insisting on what rights do they have in the passage of the China Sea, including us," he said. Duterte said he has to put forward the interests of the claimant countries, which include Vietnam, the Philippines and Brunei Darrusalam as chairman of the ASEAN. Headlines ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1China claims a large portion of the South China Sea through its nine-dash line claim.

Source: Philippine Star November 09, 2017 15:11 UTC