Philippines
Duterte chooses between Japan and China
12.08.2016
While the former president of the Philippines, Fidel Ramos, is paying a semiofficial visit to China in order to strengthen relations between the two countries and resolve accumulated contradictions, Japan is holding discussions with the current Philippine leadership on sending two Coast Guard vessels to patrol the disputed waters of the South China Sea. This is one of the measures by which the Japanese hope to prevent the strengthening of China's influence in the Philippines.