Advertisement Continue reading the main storyIf anything, a rift would be even more personal for Mrs. Clinton than for Mr. Obama. “They have the right to assert themselves,” Mrs. Clinton said in a closed-door speech to executives from Goldman Sachs in 2013, which was published by WikiLeaks. He said Manila would enter into direct negotiations with Beijing over the South China Sea. Mrs. Clinton is likely to keep a low profile on this issue in the final weeks of the campaign. “Why are they intent upon picking this fight and asserting this at this time?” Mrs. Clinton said to the group.

Source: New York Times October 22, 2016 00:22 UTC