In hopes of discouraging the Philippines from pursuing security ties with the US, China tries to frame its encroachment of the West Philippine Sea as a contest between itself and the US. But, as Rappler editor-at-large Marites Vitug shows us, this narrative is evidently false, because it’s not the US that suffers every time China carves out territory or harasses vessels, but the Philippines.

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