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The muted rhetoric on sovereignty, for political scientist Cleve Arguelles, may reflect a campaign season shaped more by pressing economic anxieties than the Philippines' territorial dispute with China. 

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Rody Duterte’s senatorial candidates can have a show of hands. Who among them will jet ski to Sandy Cay, plant the Philippine flag, and declare “This is ours?”

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