China publicises for the first time what it claims is a 2016 agreement with Philippines


TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP): For the first time, China has publicised what it claims is an unwritten 2016 agreement with the Philippines over access to South China Sea islands.

The move threatens to further raise tensions in the disputed waterway, through which much of the world's trade passes and which China claims virtually in its entirety.

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