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🇵🇭🇨🇳 Philippines says it did not consider invoking US pact over South China Sea clash The Philippines did not consider invoking a mutual defence treaty with the United States after accusing China of disrupting a resupply mission in the disputed South China Sea, officials said. Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, who also chairs the national maritime council, said the confrontation between Philippine navy sailors and the Chinese coast guard "was probably a misunderstanding or an accident". "We are not yet ready to classify this as an armed attack," Bersamin told a briefing. "I think this is a matter that can easily be resolved by us and if China wants to work with us, we can work with China." #ThePhilippines #China @asianomics

🇺🇸🇨🇳NEW ARTICLE: Reuters Exposes Washington’s Global Disinformation Campaign: The Rest of the Story "In a recent article, Reuters confirms what many knew for years, that the United States government and its various departments and agencies have been conducting global disinformation campaigns targeting nations it seeks to undermine, and whose governments it seeks to overthrow." "This is just a small illustration of just how much larger the scale is of US manipulation and coercion around the globe, far exceeding dishonest and abusive activities across social media platforms, but going as far as building up opposition movements and political parties to not only express opposition to China, but to forcibly pivot nations away from working with China by politically capturing their governments, installing client regimes into power, and having policy irrationally tilted in favor of serving US interests as the expense of the targeted nation, in this case, Thailand." READ MORE: