Manila: The sinking of a Filipino fishing boat by a Chinese vessel in the disputed South China Sea was “just a collision”, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte said as he moved to soothe anger over the crash.
The typically brash Duterte urged calm in his first public comments about the June 9 incident, which has fed into outrage over China’s expansive claims to the resource-rich waterway.
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