The Philippines will “stand our ground” in a dispute with Beijing over the South China Sea, a top security official said July 12, eight years after an international ruling against China in the territorial contest. Tensions over the strategic waterway, a key passage for sea-borne trade, have soared in the past 18 months following a...

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