Senator says the two sides might start joint patrols in the South China Sea by the end of next month
Erwin Tulfo, chairman of the Senate’s foreign relations committee, met Chinese ambassador Jing Quan on Monday, and said afterwards that the two countries’ coastguards were expected to sign a memorandum of agreement by the end of March.
They said that the specific operational terms for joint patrols could determine whether they proved to be temporary or permanent.
