Philippines vows not to surrender 'square inch' of territory in South China Sea (www.channelnewsasia.com)

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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

The phillipines uses inches?

[-] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

They do when speaking in Hawaii

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

I mean I wouldn't be too surprised if the phillipines did use the imperial measurement system considering US envolvement in that region but alas they use metric.

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 2 points 2 weeks ago

6.452 cm²

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

I hope they can prevent it. China is really ramping up it's claims.

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