A U.S. Navy warship cruised past four occupied features of a contested island chain in the South China Sea on Friday to protest “excessive maritime claims.”
“Making wars means making maps,” the Thai scholar Thongchai Winichakul wrote in his landmark Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation (1994).
MANILA: To strengthen the country’s claim on the Spratly Islands, Cagayan de Oro 2nd District Rep. Rufus Rodriguez is proposing the creation of a task force that will be “exclusively dedicated” to this claim.
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