DFA chief to China: Stop harassing us
DFA chief to China: Stop harassing us
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00:00 Mild-mannered and quietly arrayed, Philippine Foreign Minister has always kept it cool.
00:05 But on Monday, the Philippines' top diplomat had a simple message for Beijing on the sidelines
00:09 of the ASEAN-Australia summit meeting in Melbourne.
00:13 There he defended the country's policy of broadcasting or publicizing China's dangerous
00:18 and bullying maneuvers in the West Philippine Sea to include the massing of scores of Chinese
00:23 war vessels from its coast guard, navy, plus a reinforcement of scores of Chinese militia
00:28 boats and ships in the nation's exclusive economic zone.
00:32 A point President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has ever since embraced echoed in gracing
00:37 an Australian think tank event this afternoon where he yet again reiterated how his government
00:42 will never surrender a square inch of Philippine territory and maritime jurisdiction.
00:47 In the meantime, China in its response to Manalo's latest soundbite continues to dismiss
00:53 the Philippines' position and the rule of international law by insisting all the waters
00:58 in the Philippines' exclusive economic zone as clearly defined by provisions in the United
01:02 Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea or UNCLOS, which China is a signatory to our
01:08 territories of China as dillionated in its nine-dash line diagram.