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Rodrigo Duterte

‘China has the arms, we do not’, Duterte rules out confronting Beijing in the South China Sea

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, in his fifth annual address to the nation on July 27, 2020, said he is too short-handed to push for the Philippines' claims in the South China Sea.

Video source: Facebook/Presidential Communications (Government of the Philippines)
 

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