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US’s Tillerson Stirs up The South China Sea

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Philip Bowring
Aug 11, 2017
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United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to Southeast Asia has exposed how the US’s current obsession with North Korea is undermining more important long-term interests. The only good thing one could say about the visit, which took in the Philippines – for ASEAN’s 50th anniversary – Thailand and Malaysia was that his words were guarded and…

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