The Foreign Affairs Department declined to comment Wednesday on China’s threat to make the United States pay the price if it crosses Beijing’s limits in the disputed South China Sea. “We have yet to confirm the report,” the department said in a message. The Philippines has repeatedly said it will not go to war with China and will pursue only peaceful solutions to the territorial dispute with Beijing.

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