Title:

 Manila warms to Beijing and feels heat of missiles

Author:

Narciso Reyes Jr

Source:

The Nation

Date:

May 12, 2018

Description:

How clever and masterful is China’s President Xi Jinping: Without waging war, indeed without firing a shot, he has scored an immense strategic victory in the South China-Philippine Sea, which siphons $5 trillion of annual maritime traffic in East Asia.