China dismissed that decision

China dismissed that decision and continued to build its bases there. And when Rodrigo Duterte became president of the Philippines in 2016, he revealed a new policy that included a “separation” from the US and a strategic tilt toward China. That country rewarded the policy with promises of massive developmental aid. By 2018, however, China’s army was operatinganti-aircraft missiles, mobile missile launchers and military radar on five artificial “islands” in the Spratly archipelago that it had built from sand its dredgers sucked from the seabed. สล็อตเว็บตรง