NEW DELHI: India is selling arms to the Philippines with the aim of countering growing Chinese aggression in the South China Sea. In the game of supremacy and one-upmanship in the South China Sea, the Philippines is pitted against China. The island nation is aggressively responding to the Chinese threat with a call for self-reliance. And India seeks to ensure optimum utilization of the situation by increasing its strategic partnership with the Philippines. Defence ties have been steadily growing between the two nations over the years. India and the Philippines have now decided to turn over a new leaf and