Hippie-Era Tune Sums Up Conflict in Tropical Seas
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Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- “Are you going to ScarboroughShoal? China, Phils, Vietnam and Brunei…”
Simon & Garfunkel sang different lyrics for their 1960s hit“Scarborough Fair,” a song that had nothing to do with Asiangeopolitics. That didn’t stop one Filipino lounge singer fromturning it into a protest song about rising tensions in theSouth China Sea on a recent evening in Manila for his martini-sipping audience.