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Is China willing to start a conflict with the Philippines?

By Tom Rogan

Published October 2, 2023 10:30am ET

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Is China willing to start a conflict with the Philippines? — Tensions in the South China Sea are quickly escalating as China and the Philippines seek to enforce competing territorial claims. While a 2016 international tribunal ruling and most nations recognize the Philippines’s exclusive economic rights to the waters in question, China insists it will not back down. This has led to increasingly tense interactions between […]

Tensions in the South China Sea are quickly escalating as China and the Philippines seek to enforce competing territorial claims. While a 2016 international tribunal ruling and most nations recognize the Philippines’s exclusive economic rights to the waters in question, China insists it will not back down.

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