Earlier, President Duterte announced that he would ask his counterpart in China during his state visit there this week why so many Chinese nationals are involved in the drug trade in the Philippines. As Duterte’s war on drugs continues to unravel Chinese links in the overall drug trade, more and more people are speculating about whether Beijing has been waging a form of state-sponsored “drug warfare” aimed at the Philippines, its main rival in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) disputes. In this scenario, the Beijing politburo has been deploying an unconventional warfare strategy by clandestinely pumping drugs into the country as a means of destabilizing its adversary. Drug warfare is thought to form part of a “culture warfare,” a broader penumbra, aimed at corrupting the moral fabric of a rival nation and weakening its human resource base. Some accounts go so far as to cite the counsel of Sun Tzu no less, as basis for this unconventional strategy.