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The Philippines Is About to Give Up the South China Sea to China

Posted October 17th, 2016 at 12:42 pm (UTC-4)
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Were Aquino’s anointed successor Mar Roxas currently president of the Philippines, it’s likely the nation would now be rallying international diplomatic pressure against China…Instead Duterte, after years of the Philippines building its legal argument and winning, appears set to essentially reverse course and give China Scarborough Shoal after all.