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Philippine Foreign Secretary Is a Hero for Talking Tough to Xi Jinping

Philippine Foreign Secretary Is a Hero for Talking Tough to Xi Jinping
Philippines' Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (L) and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) arrive for a news conference at the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs Home Office in Manila on March 1, 2019. Andrew Harnik/AFP via Getty Images
Anders Corr
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On May 3, the Philippine Foreign Secretary, Teddy Locsin, told China to “GET THE F*** OUT.” He was referring not only to the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), including its fishing grounds in the South China Sea, but to what he claimed was an attempt to make the Philippines into “a Chinese province.”
Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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