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China Coast Guard 5901, the world's largest coast guard ship known as "The Monster," has already left the Philippine's exclusive economic zone , the Armed Forces of the Philippines said on Wednesday."The AFP reports that the two China Coast Guard vessels sighted near Bajo de Masinloc are now outside the Philippine EEZ," AFP spokesperson Colonel Francel Margareth Padilla said in a press briefing.
It is a China Coast Guard ship. There will be appropriate response from the NTF, most likely the Philippine Coast Guard," he added.Bajo de Masinloc, also called Scarborough Shoal or Panatag Shoal, is a place of tension as China claims almost the entire South China Sea. Its territorial claims overlap with those of the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei.On April 30, the PCG said Chinese Coast vessels fired water cannons at Philippine civilian vessels en route to the shoal.
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