Beijing pushed the Philippines too far on the South China Sea with just two little words

Beijing pushed the Philippines too far on the South China Sea with just two little words

Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte’s embrace of China in recent months has included dismissing the international tribunal ruling that his predecessor Benigno Aquino III championed. The ruling, which found this July that Beijing was repeatedly breaking international law, and causing extensive environmental damage, in the South China Sea, is nothing more than “a piece of paper…