I CERTAINLY hope it is just coincidental, but a Chinese coast guard's recent blocking of a Philippine Coast Guard ship delivering supplies to a platoon of Marines stationed at the Ayungin Shoal (Second Thomas Shoal) could be China's first response to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s recent moves to place the country in alliance with the United States.

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