South China SeaPhilippine, Chinese top diplomats agree to ease South China Sea tensions
Foreign ministers hold 1st meeting in 2 years as Manila conducts resupply mission
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, meets with Philippine Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo during the ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference with China at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Vientiane on July 26. © AP
RAMON ROYANDOYAN, Nikkei staff writer
VIENTIANE -- Foreign ministers of the Philippines and China met on Friday evening in Vientiane and agreed to cool simmering tensions in the South China Sea in line with their earlier provisional agreement on resupply missions in Manila's outposts in the disputed waterway.