The exchange comes as tension grows between between the capitals over repeated maritime disputes and confrontations in the busy South China Sea, which China claims almost entirely as its own, despite overlapping claims by regional countries. Defending its oversight of foreign state-backed academic and cultural exchange programmes, the Philippine…
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