MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said there was no way to stop Chinese from fishing in his country’s exclusive economic zone and he would not risk losing Filipino forces in a clash in the disputed South China Sea.
“When Xi says ‘I will fish’, who can prevent him?” Duterte said on Monday as he defended his nonconfrontational approach to China over the territorial disputes in his annual state of the nation address before a joint session of Congress.
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