{"id":78326,"date":"2016-07-07T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=78326"},"modified":"2016-07-07T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T11:43:00","slug":"chinese-ambassador-phl-makes-courtesy-call-president-duterte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/07\/07\/chinese-ambassador-phl-makes-courtesy-call-president-duterte\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Ambassador to PHL makes courtesy call on President Duterte"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_78328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78328\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PH1-KING_AMB2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78328\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PH1-KING_AMB2.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jinhua pays a courtesy call on President Rodrigo &quot;Rody&quot; Duterte at Malaca\u00f1ang Palace on July 7, 2016. (Photo: PCOO\/Presidential Photographers\u2019 Division)\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PH1-KING_AMB2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PH1-KING_AMB2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jinhua pays a courtesy call on President Rodrigo &#8220;Rody&#8221; Duterte at Malaca\u00f1ang Palace on July 7, 2016. (Photo: PCOO\/Presidential Photographers\u2019 Division)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 President Rodrigo R. Duterte welcomed in Malacanang Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jinhua on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese Ambassador made a courtesy call conveying President Xi Jin Ping\u2019s congratulations (to President Duterte) on being the 16th President,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo further details regarding (the) courtesy call,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>President Duterte earlier said he was willing to have bilateral talks with China even if the Philippines wins in the arbitration case it filed before the UN arbitral tribunal regarding the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n<p>He said ownership by the Philippines on some islands in the West Philippine Sea involved economic issues, thus, there was no need to wage war against China.<\/p>\n<p>Decision on the case is expected within this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 President Rodrigo R. Duterte welcomed in Malacanang Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jinhua on Thursday. \u201cThe Chinese &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[6054,11409],"class_list":["post-78326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-duterte","tag-president-duterte","mauthors-joann-santiago","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}