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WITHOUT spending trillions of dollars in a grandiose Belt and Road Initiative, and with no army of propagandists spread around the world, the Philippines is beating China in the contest for hearts and minds in world opinion regarding their territorial dispute in the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea.

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