As Other South China Sea Nations Defy China, Duterte Capitulates
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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