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Philippines says it won’t back down, but won’t start a war, after clash with Chinese Coast Guard

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Philippines says it won’t back down, but won’t start a war, after clash with Chinese Coast Guard

The president of the Philippines says his country will not yield to “any foreign power” after Chinese forces injured Filipino navy personnel and damaged at least two military boats with machetes, axes and hammers in a clash in the disputed South China Sea, but added the Philippines will never instigate a war

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