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As Other South China Sea Nations Defy China, Duterte Capitulates

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Jul 25, 2019
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On Saturday, May 4, Indonesian authorities went on nationwide television with great fanfare to sink 51 foreign ships at five ports across the archipelago, including 28 Vietnamese-flagged boats, six Malaysian, two Chinese and one from the Philippines.

Those two sunken Chinese ships, a small part of the total Chinese vessels and Indonesian ones leased by C…

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