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Philippines Seeks to Reverse Duterte’s Foreign Policy Botch

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May 12, 2017
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Philippine Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol is attempting to undo an international gaffe by President Rodrigo Duterte, moving to establish a research facility on Benham Rise, a 13 million-hectare underwater plateau 250 km. east of the island of Luzon.

The United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf declared the area part of Phili…

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