In this handout photo provided by the Malacanang Presidential Communications Office, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., center, listens during an emergency meeting with the defense secretary and other top military and security officials to discuss the latest hostilities in the disputed South China Sea at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines on Monday Oct. 23, 2023. The United States renewed a warning Monday that it would defend the Philippines in case of an armed attack under a 1951 treaty after Chinese ships blocked and collided with two Filipino vessels off a contested shoal in an alarming flare-out of the territorial disputes in the South China Sea. (Malacanang Presidential Communications Office via AP)
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