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The 100-boat civilian mission to the West Philippine Sea will proceed on May 15 despite China’s recent water cannon attacks in Scarborough Shoal, its organizer, Atin Ito Coalition, said.
“China’s water cannon attacks in the West Philippine Sea is a broken philosophy. They are not getting the desired results. On the contrary, they only nourish Filipino resolve in the WPS,” she added. The Philippine Navy on Wednesday said not only 100 but around 1,000 civilian boats should be deployed in the WPS to match the number of Chinese maritime militia vessels in the area.
In a statement, China said that in 2016, Beijing made a “special arrangement” to allow Filipino fishers in designated waters, except the lagoon of Scarborough Shoal. According to the Chinese Embassy, it is now taking action against the Philippines—a move seen by other countries as aggressive and harassing—in the waters because the latter refused to abide by such an agreement, among many others.
However, the embassy alleged that the Marcos administration unilaterally disrupted the arrangement by dispatching “coast guard ships and official vessels to intrude into waters a number of times.”
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