{"id":40822,"date":"2019-09-12T13:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T13:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40822"},"modified":"2019-09-12T13:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T13:22:15","slug":"duterte-says-xi-jinping-offered-him-an-oil-and-gas-deal-to-ignore-south-china-sea-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40822","title":{"rendered":"Duterte says Xi Jinping offered him an oil and gas deal to ignore South China Sea ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said he has been offered a controlling stake in a joint energy deal by Chinese President Xi Jinping in exchange for ignoring an<a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2016\/07\/04\/asia\/south-china-sea-un-case-explainer\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> international arbitration<\/a> in Manila&#8217;s favor on the South China Sea. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In 2016, a tribunal in The Hague<a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2016\/07\/12\/asia\/china-philippines-south-china-sea\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> ruled in favor<\/a> of the Philippines in a maritime dispute, concluding China has no legal basis to claim historic rights to the bulk of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2018\/08\/asia\/south-china-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\"> South China Sea<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Speaking to reporters in the Philippines on Tuesday, Duterte said that Xi had promised him a majority stake in a joint oil and gas exploration venture that could fall within Manila&#8217;s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), if the Philippines ignores the decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, according to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnphilippines.com\/news\/2019\/9\/11\/duterte-arbitral-ruling-joint-exploration-china.html\" target=\"_blank\"> CNN affiliate CNN Philippines<\/a>. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said he has been offered a controlling stake in a joint energy deal by Chinese President Xi Jinping in exchange for ignoring an international arbitration in Manila&#8217;s favor on the South China Sea. In 2016, a tribunal in The Hague ruled in favor of the Philippines in a maritime dispute, concluding&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}