Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos Jr denied making a deal with China to remove a grounded warship, which is a military outpost in the South China Sea, on Wednesday. He said such an agreement must be considered rescinded if it ever existed.
The Philippines reportedly keeps a handful of mere troops on the WWII-era Sierra Madre at the Second Thomas Shoal, which Manila knows as the Ayungin Shoal, inside the 200-mile-long exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
On Monday, China accused...