President Rodrigo Duterte said the Philippines cannot reclaim the West Philippine Sea or assert its rights without bloodshed.

“If we go there, really to find out and assert jurisdiction, it would be bloody. It will result in a violence that we cannot maybe win,” Duterte said in his public address on Monday.

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