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South China Sea without any confrontation with Chinese forces guarding the disputed area, officials said Friday. The Philippine delivery of supplies and military personnel on Thursday to the Second Thomas Shoal was the third such trip that did not lead to any confrontation since July, when both sides signed a rare deal to stop an alarming spike in violent confrontations. «The Armed Forces of the Philippines continues to uphold its mandate of safeguarding Philippine sovereignty and ensuring the welfare of its stationed personnel in the West Philippine Sea,» military spokesperson Col Xerxes Trinidad said, using the Philippine name for the South China Sea. «There were no untoward incidents during the mission,» Trinidad said.

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Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro says he doesn't expect U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s next administration will demand the Philippines pay more for military protection because both allies face the shared threat of China

China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that's likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims. The Foreign Ministry on Sunday posted online geographic coordinates for the baselines around Scarborough Shoal. A nation's territorial waters and exclusive economic zone are typically defined as the distance from the baselines. Both China and the Philippines claim Scarborough Shoal and other outcroppings in the South China Sea. China seized the shoal, which lies west of the main Philippine island of Luzon, in 2012 and has since restricted access to Filipino fishermen there. A 2016 ruling by an international arbitration court found that most Chinese claims in the South China Sea were invalid but Beijing refuses to abide by it. Ships from China and the Philippines have collided several times as part of increased confrontations, and the Chinese coast guard has blasted Philippine vessels with water cannons.

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China's Ministry of State Security said on Tuesday that it had retrieved spying devices both on the ocean surface and in the depths of the sea, including underwater «lighthouses» that could guide the transit of foreign submarines. The ministry said it had uncovered devices that had been hidden on the ocean floor and were sending back information that could «pre-set the field for battle,» in an article on its official WeChat account, China's most popular social media app. Recent sea and air confrontations in the South China Sea between China and the Philippines over competing territorial claims in the highly strategic waterway have raised the risk of an escalation that could eventually involve the U.S., which is treaty-bound to defend the Philippines if it is attacked.

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global economy by 2030, but its rising population presents mounting challenges in basic service coverage, S&P Global Ratings said on Thursday. «India is poised to be the fastest-growing major economy over the next three years and the third largest globally by 2030,» the ratings firm said in a report titled 'Look forward Emerging Markets: A decisive decade'. Emerging markets will play a crucial role in shaping the global economy over the next decade, averaging 4.06% GDP growth through 2035 compared with 1.59% for advanced economies, it said.