(UPDATE) THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Thursday called on China to remove all illegal structures it constructed in the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS) and cease reclamations in the area.
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MANILA fired its longest and strongest rebuttal ever to Beijing since 2016, demanding that the Asian military superpower get out of the West Philippine Sea and be accountable for the environmental destruction it caused in building artificial islands. “We call on China to remove all these illegal structures, cease reclamations…
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said Sunday that they did not receive any reports that the buoys they placed in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) were missing.
China on Friday defended its placement of buoys in the Nansha Islands, also known as Spratly Islands, saying it is just “exercising its sovereignty in accordance with the law.”