Yazhou Zhoukan, a popular Chinese language magazine, has named President Rodrigo Duterte “Person of the Year” for 2016. This was revealed by presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella on Tue, Jan 3.
Yazhou Zhoukan is the world’s only Chinese language weekly international magazine with circulation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia.
It may be recalled that in Oct last year, Duterte received a grand welcome from top Chinese leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, when the Filipino leader visited Beijing.
Duterte’s four-day trip to China reportedly calmed down tensions brought by the decision of the international arbitral tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands in favor of the Philippines’ arbitration case against China over the disputed West Philippine Sea or South China Sea.
The ruling concluded that China has no legal basis to claim historic rights using a nine-dash line map that covers most of the South China sea which also being claimed partly by Brunei, Vietnam, Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia. —Philippine News Agency (PNA)
