MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte keeps on insisting that taking a stronger stance on against China’s militarization in the South China Sea would mean going to war.
- Patricia Lourdes Viray
- phil.starGlobal
Justifying his administration’s soft stance on the maritime dispute, Duterte said that he would have taken a stronger and more “violent” position on the matter but that would “probably be a great loss to the nation and probably end up losing a war.”
As opposed to the president’s pronouncements, the Philippines’ options are not limited to waging a…