Manila’s resupply missions to troops on a disputed South China Sea atoll will remain purely Philippine operations, the National Security Council said on July 21, after Washington vowed to “do what is necessary” to support them. The Second Thomas Shoal, which hosts a tiny Philippine garrison stationed on a deliberately beached old warship, has been...

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