"At best, it would be an alliance of trade and commerce," he said. This time, he reiterated the fact that economic cooperation and not disputes, will drive Sino-Philippines relations.

"So it's basically normalizing relations again but it doesn't mean the dispute issue has gone away. The disputes and the contentious issues we've compartmentalized will be discussed individually with the use of quiet not megaphone diplomacy," he said.

Manila is "moving fast" to rekindle its ties with Beijing that had soured since 2012 when Manila lodged a case against China over Huangyan Island in the South China Sea in an interim tribunal at The Hague.

Over the weekend, Duterte restated that the Philippines would not press China on an arbitral ruling over the South China Sea issue.

"In the play of politics now, I will set aside the arbitral ruling," he told a news conference last Saturday, adding, "I will not impose anything on China. Why? Because the politics here in Southeast Asia is changing. Like us now, I will separate or I will demand that you (U.S. forces) go out of my country."

Since Duterte's visit in October, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia said last week that Manila was able to close a 100 million-U.S. dollar contract for fruit exports to China, along with the lifting of Chinese bans on Philippine bananas and mangoes.

The widely-circulated Philippine Daily Inquirer ran an editorial on Duterte's Beijing visit.

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