Published May 1, 2021, 8:43 AM Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Sunday, April 25, renewed his call for the government to cancel its appeasement and accommodation policy on China, which, he said, is no longer listening to the pleas of the Philippine government to abide by international law on the issue of the West Philippine Sea. Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon in a hearing of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee on March 5, 2020. (Senate of the Philippines/Joseph Vidal) Drilon noted China remains undeterred by the country’s filing of diplomatic protests and Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana’s demand for them to leave the country’s sovereign territories.