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Filipino scientists completed a marine research mission despite “dangerous maneuvers” by a Chinese vessel which attempted to block their boat from reaching a reef in the West Philippine Sea.
Chinese “law enforcement officers” landed there, where they “investigated and handled ,” China Coast Guard spokesperson Gan Yu said in a statement.“Pag-asa Island generates a territorial sea of 12 nautical miles. This means we have sovereignty over these waters. China’s mere presence there, disrupting our research which we are lawfully conducting, is a violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas ,” he said.
An initial assessment of Sandy Cay and a second reef near Pag-asa showed that the fish and corals were in a “very poor” state, University of the Philippines marine biologist Jonathan Anticamara later on told a press conference.
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