Tropical Storm Basyang Brings Thousands to Standstill as Philippines Grapples with China Tensions

The Philippines, an archipelagic nation of over 7,000 islands strategically located at the crossroads of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, has long been vulnerable to the whims of nature.

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