© 2018 Bloomberg Finance LPThe Philippines is beginning to pay the price for President Rodrigo Duterte’s South China Sea policy flip-flops in the form of repeated challenges to the country’s sovereignty by Beijing. China considers the South China Sea its own sea, all of it. Back then, the Philippines and its close ally, the U.S., won an international arbitration ruling that China has no historic title over the waters of the South China Sea. Instead, Philippines is starting to pay the cost for President Duterte’s flip-flops. But apparently Washington assurances haven’t been sufficient to deter China’s aggression in the South China Sea.

Source: Forbes April 06, 2019 20:03 UTC