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President Rodrigo Duterte should move away from his pivot to China strategy in light of the continued presence of Chinese vessels in the West Philippine Sea, former Bayan Muna party-list Representative Neri Colmenares said Friday. Colmenares, a critic of Duterte’s policies ranging from the war on drugs to friendly relations with Beijing, told an online protest that the President should “abandon his policy of subservience to China.” Maritime law expert Jay Batongbacal, meanwhile, said the Philippines gave away too many concessions to China in exchange for investment and infrastructure commitments which “hardly materialized.” “We came to this point after years...
