President Marcos said the Philippines needs to "do more" amid the continuous illegal acts of China in the West Philippine Sea as he insisted that the recent violent resupply mission in Ayungin Shoal was a "deliberate act" to stop the country's legitimate operation.
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00:00Well, we have called him many, many times.
00:04Yes, well, the European Union has decided to formalize a discussion with the EU ambassador,
00:14but we are actually constantly in touch with him.
00:18I think we have made our – we have already made our position very clear.
00:23We have made our objections to some of the actions that were undertaken by the maritime
00:31forces of the PLA.
00:33Also, our objections that we have also made very clear, not only to the ambassador, but
00:39also to Beijing.
00:43So it will really depend on how formal we want to make this complaint.
00:51But, you know, we have – we have – how many?
00:55We have over a hundred in the protest.
00:59We have already made a similar number of remarks.
01:03So we have to do more than just that.
01:07Because if we are going to fight the ambassador, we have to make our position clear.
01:11We don't want this to happen.
01:13And that's it.
01:15But we have to do more than that.
01:17So, yeah.
01:19Sir, just a quick follow-up.
01:21Do you think, sir, it was an armed attack?
01:23Because, sir – I mean, was it an armed attack, sir?
01:25It was not armed.
01:27It was not an armed attack.
01:29But it was a deliberate – it was a deliberate action to stop our people.
01:39But in the process – and in the process of that, in Mohan and Kyle, they boarded a
01:45Philippine vessel and took the equipment from the Philippine vessel.
01:51So although there were no arms involved, nonetheless, it is still a deliberate action, and it is
02:01essentially an illegal action that was taken by the Chinese government.
02:05Sir, that's not my point.
02:07That's not my point.
02:09How come you don't know your statement?
02:11Because I'm just understanding your answer.
02:13Because at first, we didn't see the data.
02:17Maybe it's just a mistake.
02:19But when I went to West Point and talked to the UN Secretary-General, I told him what
02:27really happened.
02:29It's clear that he didn't misunderstand.
02:31We really went there to destroy our people.
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