MANILA’S BEIJING BROMANCE WRECKS ON PAG-ASA ISLAND: Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte has threatened Beijing with military action.

China’s prior theft of Filipino maritime territory and resources is a fact. In 2016, the Hague’s arbitration tribunal ruled that China had intruded on Filipino territory when it seized islets in the Spratlys, constructed artificial islands on reefs well inside long-recognized Filipino territory and conducted illegal fishing operations. The tribunal relied heavily on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea treaty (UNCLOS), which China claims to recognize and support.

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