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Manila Adamant Not to Kowtow to Beijing

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Manila Adamant Not to Kowtow to Beijing

Dispute over reef threatens to escalate

Aug 18, 2023
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By: Viswa Nathan

If China hadn’t continued to keep encroaching into Philippine territorial waters, threatening Filipino fishers and the coast guard, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. would have stayed with the foreign policy of “friend to all and enemy of none” which he defined in his first State of the Nation Address over a year ago. The tension between th…

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