BEIJING: China should send warships to the Philippines as part of the typhoon disaster relief effort to counter United States and Japanese influence, state-run media said on Friday.

Beijing and Manila are embroiled in a row over disputed islands, but if the Philippines rejected the warships proposal, that would only “underscore its narrow mind and will be of no loss to China,” the Global Times said in an editorial.

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