Panelo twits Roque, says no Rody-Xi pact on SCS

The former chief legal counsel of ex-President Rodrigo Duterte denied the existence of any “gentleman’s agreement” with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the West Philippine Sea.

However, in a Facebook post yesterday afternoon, Roque shot back at those who seemed to have forgotten the “gentleman’s agreement to maintain the status quo sa West Philippine Sea.”“For those who have forgotten, now you know,” Roque wrote in his caption to a link to a Reuters story, “Philippines says China agrees on no new expansion in South China Sea.”He said the former President even raised the arbitral ruling to Xi during his first visit to China in 2016.

“The President responded that if we cannot come to an agreement, let us at least have peace,” he said. “There was nothing secret about it. It was an agreement to maintain status quo and it worked because we had more peaceful relations with China then,” he added.

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