China stirs up trouble with Philippines | Guardian Weekly:
"The joint US-Philippine naval exercise held last month was planned long ago but it came at a particularly sensitive moment. The mission for naval forces from the two countries, linked by a mutual defence treaty, was to recapture a tiny island that had been seized by terrorists. But at the same time a real-life crisis was winding down 570km away, on the Scarborough shoal, a chain of reefs and uninhabited islands the sovereignty of which the Philippines and China dispute"
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