Manila: The Philippines has branded as “illegal” the recent presence of hundreds of Chinese ships near a disputed island in the South China Sea – a rare public rebuke of Beijing by Manila, which has largely set aside the once tense stand-off.
Control over the South China Sea is a point of regional contention because trillions of dollars of goods pass through it and rich petroleum reserves are thought to sit deep beneath its waters.
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