South China Sea: ‘no sense’ in pushing Philippines’ case at UN summit, Locsin says

The Philippine foreign secretary on Wednesday rejected a call for Manila to press its South China Sea dispute with Beijing at the United Nations General Assembly this September.Teodoro Locsin Jnr said it wouldn’t “make any sense” to revisit the 2016 ruling of a UN arbitral court that sided with Manila against China’s territorial claims as “we won it already”.“Why would you want to re-litigate something that you won? You don’t like you won?” asked Locsin, referring to a suggestion by the former…