The South China Morning Post media on Monday, Feb 27 has posted an article portraying Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte as a “dangerous” player in the South China Sea “game”.
“It’s a dangerous game that [Duterte’s] playing,” said American historian Alfred McCoy, who believes that in accommodating China in the South China Sea, the Philippines is in danger of becoming a pawn in a two-pronged strategy by China to deal a “crippling blow to US global power”.
Duterte risked a military coup if he traded financial support from China for silence over Beijing’s build-up of armed forces in the strategically located waterway through which a third of the world’s shipping passes, McCoy said.
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