Teodoro takes swipe at China’s new trespass rule: ‘Roguish, irresponsible threat’

  • 4 months ago
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. did not mince words when he spoke on Friday, May 24, about China’s new regulation in the South China Sea which empowers its coast guard to arrest “trespassers” in maritime areas it claims as its own.

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00:00 Terming these cooperative activities with like-minded nations as a containment or a provocation
00:08 is disinformation and evidence of paranoia of a close political system.
00:22 The ultimate intent is to get what they want by the threat or the use of force.
00:30 This we cannot allow to continue.
00:32 We will train more realistically.
00:39 There will be more maritime cooperative activities between us and like-minded nations.
00:46 More training scenarios, more interoperability exercises involving also our civilian counterparts.
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