Philippines must protest over Beijing’s ‘little blue men’ or waive South China Sea claims, Rodrigo Duterte’s government told

Manila must keep protesting against Chinese incursions in the South China Sea, or be seen to have given up its territorial claims, experts said on Monday.The warning came as the Philippines issued a formal diplomatic protest to Beijing after revealing that more than 200 Chinese vessels had been moored at Whitsun Reef since March 7.Called Julian Felipe by the Philippines, the reef lies within both the area claimed by the Philippines as its exclusive economic zone and the nine-dash line with…