‘Want Trouble? You First!’ Philippines’ Duterte Dares US to Bring Its Fleet & Declare War on China

• Duterte obviously understands the Art of War – Sun Tzu. The US-Pentagram uses Philippines, Taiwan, Japan … as proxies to fight against China, to weaken China. There is no possibility of the Philippines winning a war against China. From the Art of War point of view, for Philippines to win a war against China, they must invert the situation and use the American military might against China. Duterte, like him or hate him, is NOT stupid.
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• ‘Want Trouble? You First!’ Philippines’ Duterte Dares US to Bring Its Fleet & Declare War on China
  by https://www.rt.com/
  If Washington wants the Philippines to fight China, the US military should come and fire the first shot, President Rodrigo Duterte argued, accusing the US of using its allies as “bait” for Beijing.
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  “There is always America pushing us, egging us … making me the bait. What do you think Filipinos are, earthworms?” Duterte said in a speech in Leyte province on Friday, which only got media attention on Sunday.
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  “Now I say, you bring your planes, your boats to South China Sea. Fire the first shot and we are just here behind you. Go ahead, let’s fight,” he added. “Do you want trouble? OK, let’s do it.”
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  The remarks came as the government in Manila finds itself sandwiched between US demands for a tougher posture towards China and Beijing’s maritime expansion in the South China Sea, specifically the islands that the Philippines have claimed as their own.
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  The US knew about China building up the islands, the president told the audience in Alangalang, at the opening of a rice processing factory, noting that the US Navy has the Seventh Fleet stationed in Japan.
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  “Why didn’t they send it to the Spratly and say ‘Hey guys, you are not supposed to build artificial islands in the high seas, that is exactly prohibited by international law and the fact is you are constructing it within the exclusive economic zone of our friend, the Philippines’?” Duterte asked. “They left them to build it, now it’s all there. All the guns are there, all the missiles are mounted.”
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