China Tests Biden With South China Sea Tactic That Misled Obama

  • Philippines lashes out at China as fishing boats swarm reef
  • ‘Everything we have done is more rhetorical than substantive’
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Based on the official view from Beijing, the Philippines has no reason to worry about Chinese fishing boats sitting along a disputed reef in the South China Sea.