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State S, a neighboring country, issues a unilateral Information and Communications Sovereignty Decree purporting to regulate digital communications that pass through the Philippines and to supervise Philippine-based data operators, claiming its decree applies within Philippine territory. State S dispatches enforcement officers to PH data centers, detains staff who are alleged violators, and proclaims the decree binding on all operators, including within the Philippines. The Philippine government protests, asserting exclusive territorial sovereignty and the principle of non-intervention. (a)Identify the sovereignty doctrine at issue and state the controlling rule. (b)Distinguish external sovereignty from internal sovereignty as they apply to this fact pattern. (c)Apply the doctrine to determine whether State S’s decree can have operation within the Philippines and what remedies the Philippines may pursue.