NEW DELHI: Philippines defence secretary Gilberto C Teodoro publicly rebuked China at a defence forum in Seoul after a note outlining Beijing's position on the South China Sea arbitration was handed to him while he was speaking.
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Teodoro was addressing maritime challenges and the South China Sea at the Seoul Defence Dialogue when a man approached him from behind and placed a sheet of paper on the table. Teodoro paused, picked up the note and asked whether it had come from China before reading parts of it aloud. "I have a note here. I think this is from China. And may I read it?" he said.
