“There was no so-called blocking of the course of a Philippine Navy boat and forcefully retrieving the object at the scene," the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines said in a statement.
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China has denied reports that its coast guard forcibly took from the Philippine Navy an unidentified object off the Pag-asa Island.
In a statement on Monday night, the Chinese Embassy in Manila said China’s coast guard took the object, which turned out to be the wreckage of a rocket launched by Ch