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Duterte promises oil standoff with China "will be bloody"

PHILIPPINE president Rodrigo Duterte has fired a shot across the bow to Beijing and said any drilling in his nation's maritime borders will be met by swift retaliation.

Helen Clark

"It will be bloody": Duterte

"If we go there to assert our jurisdiction, it will be bloody," he said. China has stationed a large number of boats within Philippine maritime territory since March; supposedly they are fishing...

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