He said they urged China to enforce maritime security based on the rule of law that should be “uncompromisingly respected”.
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In a report on the launch, the official Xinhua news agency said:”As China’s first SAR (synthetic aperture radar) imaging satellite that is accurate to one meter in distance, it covers the globe with an all-weather, 24-hour observation service and will be used for disaster warning, weather forecasting, water resource assessments, and the protection of maritime rights”.
The flurry of Chinese incursions follows a period of sustained pressure on China over its activities in the South China Sea, and China’s criticism of what it sees as Japanese interference in that dispute.
Japan is also leasing the Philippines four TD-90 surveillance aircraft.
Kishida later met President Rodrigo Duterte.
The railway was among the topics visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida discussed with Duterte on Thursday in the southern city of Davao.
“So I have conveyed during our meeting that Japan will continue to provide support for the improvement of the maritime security of the Philippines”, Kishida said.
Kishida says maritime order based on the rule of law is indispensable for regional stability.
A day before he flew to the Philippines on Wednesday, Kishida summoned China’s ambassador in Tokyo to protest the increased number of Chinese vessels in waters near islands in the East China Sea that China and Japan have been contesting.
Reuters reported this week that Vietnam had discreetly fortified several of its islands in the South China Sea with new mobile rocket launchers.
“The Philippines’ territorial claim over part of Nansha Qundao is groundless from the perspectives of either history or worldwide law”, a government document said after the verdict.
The Philippines “cannot do it alone”, Del Rosario said.
China is also in a long-running dispute with Japan over uninhabited islets in the East China Sea.
Ramos said they are looking forward that the formal talks will proceed in Manila and Beijing.
The Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam have competing partial claims and are perturbed by China’s aggressive moves to assert its sovereignty such as by reclaiming islands and building airstrips.
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“I have believed that in achieving the rule of law at the sea, the worldwide community should work in closer partnership that is important, like Japan, to continue to cooperate closely with the relevant countries for the peaceful resolution of the conflict”, he added.
