Ahead of the 8th anniversary of the 2016 Arbitral Ruling, Taiwan Talks visited the Philippines to find out what direction the country is heading in given China's increasingly aggressive behavior in the South China Sea and Manila's deepening security cooperation with the United States. On July 12, 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled that China's sweeping claims to the South China Sea were illegal and that the Second Thomas Shoal and Scarborough Shoal fall within the Philippines' Exclusive Economic Zone. South China Sea islands footage including Mischief Reef ALL courtesy of Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) https://amti.csis.org/islandtracker/... . By videographer Damon Lin, cameramen Wu Mingzhong and Cash Li, and Talks host Yin Khvat.


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