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t looks like the Duerte administration has a lot of soul-searching to do. Ever since he became president, Rodrigo Duerte has cozied up to China, preferring a conciliatory approach rather than a confrontational approach, in the belief that China will be more accommodating that way.

So far, he has gotten but a handful of China-funded projects, while shoals and reefs in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) that legally belong to Filipinos remain in Chinese hands. This even though a United Nations tribunal in the Hague unanimously determined, just after Duterte became president, that China’s sweeping South China Sea claims were invalid ..."   View complete editorial