When Xi meets Duterte: is the China-Philippines honeymoon over?

When Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte visits China later this month, he intends to raise with Chinese President Xi Jinping the contentious topic of Beijing’s activities in the South China Sea – and the 2016 UN arbitration ruling negating its territorial claims there.This has raised speculation that Manila is ready to take a harder line on its relations with Beijing, and on the South China Sea in particular, as since becoming president, Duterte has gone out of his way to embrace Beijing and…