Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo on Monday said he met with Fu Ying, Vice Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee of China's National People's Congress, at the sidelines of a security conference in Munich where they discussed the recent Chinese coast guard's aggressive actions against a Philippine government crew off Ayungin Shoal.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo on Monday said he met with Fu Ying, Vice Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee of China's National People's Congress, at the sidelines of a security conference in Munich where they discussed the recent Chinese coast guard's aggressive actions against a Philippine government crew off Ayungin Shoal.
The Department of Foreign Affairs on Feb. 14 lodged a strongly-worded diplomatic protest against China after the Philippine Coast Guard reported that a Chinese coast guard ship on Feb. 6 pointed a "military-grade" laser light at one of its vessels to block it from approaching the shoal during a resupply mission for Filipino troops stationed there.
China defended its coast guard's actions, saying it merely used a harmless hand-held laser meant to measure the distsnce from the Philippine vessel, which it accused of intruding into its waters and was told to leave the area. “Rival claims can only be solved peacefully by adhering to peaceful and rules-based approaches. The Philippine approach, articulated long before and formalized in the 1982 Manila Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes, enjoys the support of the international community,” he said.
China was accused of militarizing the South China Sea after it was reported that it has installed missiles and radars on artificial islands it built on the waters.
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