PoliticalChic
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"Philippines' Duterte warns over South China Sea 'flashpoint'
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte voiced rare frustration with China Friday, urging progress on a code of conduct for the contested South China Sea, which he warned was becoming a "flashpoint".
Duterte was delivering a speech at an economic forum in Tokyo, but veered off script with remarks about the resource-rich sea, over most of which China claims sovereignty despite competing claims from the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan and Vietnam.
Beijing and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have for years tried to hammer out a code of conduct to govern the disputed waters, but the process has been slow.
....an international maritime tribunal ruled early in Duterte's presidency that China's claims to the area have no legal basis."
Why is any of this our problem.
The Filipinos threw us out... probably because they were upset we were stealing all their hot chicks...
The Chinese have a chick shortage, maybe they can work it out.
Only a fool wouldn't recognize it for what it is.....
....raise your paw.
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