CHINA’S UNABASHED USE OF MARITIME MILITIA: EXPOSING BEIJING’S ‘DUALITY OF PURPOSE’
June 1, 2021
In March 2021, it was reported that China’s elusive “maritime militia” may be gathering at the Whitsun Reef in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea. Subsequently, the Philippine Defense Secretary demanded their departure from Manila’s EEZ, and the Foreign Secretary further launched a diplomatic protest against the same. China remained defiant and denied the...
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