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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he is prepared to send military ships to “stake a claim” over oil and mineral resources in the South China Sea – while noting that challenging Beijing in the disputed waters will only lead to violence. “If we go there to assert our jurisdiction, it will be bloody,” Duterte said in a televised briefing late on Monday, his first remarks after hundreds of Chinese vessels were spotted at a disputed reef in March . “I’m not so much interested now in fishing. I don’t think there’s enough fish to quarrel about,” he said, adding...
