Philippines hard man upsets Aussie China grovellers

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Australia and the Philippines will deepen maritime co-operation, including security for civilian shipping and surveillance, as President Ferdinand Marcos jnr warns his country is on the front line of Chinese efforts that threaten regional peace.

In a forthright address to federal parliament, Mr Marcos repeated his vow the Philippines would not surrender a square inch of territory to a foreign power, amid intensifying clashes between Chinese and Filipino maritime forces.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.