Win, lose or draw, Manila could pay a high price for challenging Beijing at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
AS far as diplomatic gambits go, the stakes don’t get any higher than the Philippines’ decision to challenge China’s contentious South China Sea territorial claims at a United Nations tribunal.
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