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BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei - President Ferdinand ''Bongbong'' Marcos Jr. said Wednesday the plan of China to arrest foreigners trespassing in the South China Sea is an escalation of the tension in the region. ''The new policy of threatening to detain our own citizens, that is different. That is an escalation of the situation,'' Marcos said during the Kapihan Sa Media.
You don’t know what effort is going to be successful. So, as any point of contact that I can establish I will use it, and at every level, at the leaders' level, at the ministerial, sub-ministerial, private as long as it gives us, brings us progress in terms of resolving these --- and you know, first of all to --- number one, to stop the aggressive actions such as water-cannoning and lasers and barrier putting et cetera,'' he explained.
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