Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana claimed on Sunday that 220 boats belonging to Chinese forces were operating within the Philippine Exclusive Economic Zone, and appealed to Beijing to remove them. The vessels have encroached on the Philippines’ “sovereign territory” and their presence is “a clear provocative action of militarizing the area,” …
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