The Philippines has filed 83 diplomatic protests against China since President Rodrigo Duterte assumed power in mid-2016, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.
“We are trying to secure latest figure, but as of May 4, there had already been 83 protests under PRRD," DFA Office of Strategic Communication and Research Executive Director Ivy Banzon-Abalos told reporters in a message.
On May 13, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. ordered the DFA to file a diplomatic protest over the presence of almost 300 Chinese vessels “within and outside the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines.” “Bigger groupings of CMMs were sighted at the artificial islands of China while some where observed near islands occupied by the Philippines,” it said.
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