(KING RODRIGUEZ/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)
The President raised doubts that China would give up its territorial claims believing the area is theirs even if the country gets help from the United Nations.
Duterte posed a question to the retired SC justice during his late-night pre-recorded address to the nation Monday, April 19.
“Ito naman si Carpio, daldal nang daldal wala namang… Ano bang gusto mo? Sige ka punta doon sa… (This Carpio keeps on talking but he doesn’t… What do you like? Right, go there to…) Do you think China will obey the United Nations? I’ll ask you a question: If the United Nations will ask China to surrender because of that award given to us, ibibigay ba ng China ‘yan? (will China give that back?),” Duterte asked Carpio.