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WITHOUT spending trillions of dollars in a grandiose Belt and Road Initiative, and with no army of propagandists spread around the world, the Philippines is beating China in the contest for hearts and minds in world opinion regarding their territorial dispute in the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea.Anyone paying attention can hardly fail to note the running score.
China has made itself a bottleneck to the historic principle by claiming sovereignty over the entire South and East China Seas, and it recently imposed rules like no trespassing in the SCS, even in the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines.Freedom of navigation is a principle of the law of the sea that ships flying the flag of any sovereign state shall not suffer interference from other states, apart from the exceptions provided for in international law.
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