Philippines Plans Summit on UN Sidelines to Seek Ways to ‘Talk Some Sense’ Into China

The Philippines is planning a summit of at least 20 nations on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in the coming weeks to find ways “to talk some sense” into the Chinese regime over its aggression against Manila in the South China Sea. Jose Manuel Romualdez, the Philippines’s ambassador to the United States, revealed the plan on Sept. 10 at the Future Security Forum 2024 in Washington, an annual event organized by Arizona State University and think tank New America. “The Philippines has never faced this type of challenge since World War II,” Romualdez said. Tensions between China and the Philippines have escalated in recent weeks, as Manila has criticized Beijing for ramming its boats, blasting them with water cannons, and firing flares at its aircraft, with most of the incidents occurring at Sabina Shoal, which is known to the Philippines as Escoda Shoal and by China as Xianbin Jiao....