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PUERTO PRINCESA CITY—Vice Adm. Alberto Carlos, who supposedly confirmed that a “new model” arrangement to ease tension between the Philippines and China during the resupply of the troops at Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal, has been removed as chief of the military’s Western Command (Wescom)...

It all began in 2004, when Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was president, Avelino Cruz was secretary of National Defense. Peking and Manila signed a memorandum of understanding for an intergovernmental program that would send military officers from the Armed Forces of the Philippines for training in...