PH Defense chief more worried over US, China ‘coming to blows’ than disputed seas

By The Manila Times

Mar 08, 2019 8:03 pm

DESPITE assurances from the US and China, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana admitted that what was worrying him about the situation in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) was the “two of them coming to blows” because this would “involve us.

Lorenzana said Chinese Ambassador Zhao Jianhua informed him that China “would never attack us.”

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