Beijing’s good-cop, bad-cop playbook in Manila

WATCH closely how China’s embassy operates in Manila and you will see something straight out of a police procedural. While one officer sits smiling at the table — offering coffee, a road map and the language of peace — his angry partner stalks just outside the door, bursting in regularly to insult and intimidate the…

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