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LOOKING at the events of 2023 from our corner of the world, I will venture that the biggest story of the year was, first, the growth in the capability of Filipino defense forces under the stress of the drawn-out dispute with China in the South China Sea, or West Philippine Sea as we choose to call the waters in our exclusive economic zone (EEZ) under the United Nations Convention in the Law of the Sea (Unclos).

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