When Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte visits China this week, he'll need t...
MANILA - When Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte visits China this week, he’ll need to salvage something from a “pivot” to Beijing that has left him empty-handed, and exposed his neighbors to a new level of brinkmanship in the South China Sea.
The trip comes amid a recent rise in tension on multiple fronts, with Chinese vessels challenging energy assets and sea boundaries of Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines, prompting warnings and rebukes by the United States, which accuses China of “coercive interference” and holding hostage $2.5 trillion of oil and gas.
In return, Duterte heaped effusive praise on Xi, set aside the arbitration ruling and helped keep it off the regional agenda, creating an environment that enabled China to expand its navy, coastguard and fishing fleet and further militarize its artificial islands. Repeated unannounced movements of Chinese warships within the Philippines’ 12-mile territorial waters has incensed the military, and is stoking concern about spying.
Philippine Supreme Court Judge Antonio Carpio has been advocating that Southeast Asian countries conduct freedom of navigation and overflight activities together, and join those of the United States, Japan, India and Britain.
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