Following a series of “monitored Chinese activities” near Pag-asa Island, the country’s largest possession in the nine occupied features in the WPS, the DND on Thursday directed the AFP to beef up its presence in the region.
Following a series of “monitored Chinese activities” near Pag-asa Island, the country’s largest possession in the nine occupied features in the West Philippine Sea , the Department of National Defense on Thursday directed the Armed Forces of the Philippines to beef up its presence in the region.
The DND also pointed out that these Chinese activities endangers the marine environment, and undermines the stability of the region. But it could be recalled that DND Officer-in-Charge Undersecretary Jose Faustino Jr. expressed alarm over the reported swarming of Chinese ships off Iroquois Reef and Sabina Shoal in the WPS in a separate statement issued on December 14.
It added all activities and development in those areas are reported to the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea for an appropriate response. While China has previously built out disputed reefs, islands and land formations in the area that it had long controlled—and militarized them with ports, runways and other infrastructure—the officials presented images of what they called the first known instances of a nation doing so on territory it doesn’t already occupy.
Asked to respond to the claims, China’s Foreign Ministry in Beijing said: “The relevant report is purely made out of thin air.” With Bloomberg News
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