Will the Philippine lawsuit in The Hague against China’s island-grabbing in the South China (West Philippine Sea) provoke Beijing into declaring its own Asia-Pacific ‘Monroe Doctrine’?

In 1828, President James Monroe proclaimed, as a principle of US foreign policy, that Washington would regard “any intervention by outside powers in the politics of the two Americas as a potentially hostile act against the United States.”

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