In an effort to improve relations, President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. met with Wang Yi, China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister, on Wednesday afternoon.

Marcos claimed in a post that they discussed energy, infrastructure, and agricultural issues with Wang, who is in the nation on an official meeting.

He missed mentioning whether they raised any West Philippine Sea-related issues. A 2016 UN-backed decision rejecting Beijing’s historical claims in the South China Sea, where the West Philippine Sea is situated, is still being disregarded by China.

Marcos stated, “I am grateful to Minister Wang Yi for extending the message of congratulations and support from President Xi Jinping”

In the following years, he continued, “We also discussed… our commitment to maintaining the strong relationship between our peoples in the coming years.”

In his meeting with Wang on Tuesday, the President promised to “find ways to work to resolve the conflicts that we have”

“One of the ways that I have consistently suggested is we have our relationship not only on one dimension, ‘yun lang (just the) West Philippine Sea. Let’s add to that,” Marcos added.

“Let’s have cultural exchanges, educational exchanges, even military if that will be useful,” he added.