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Manila, Philippines—President Ferdinand Marcos said Thursday that the Philippines needs to do more than protest Beijing’s “illegal actions” in the South China Sea.
“We have filed over a hundred protests, we have already made a similar number of demarches,” Marcos told reporters.The clashes have raised concern the conflict will draw in the United States, which is bound by a 1951 mutual defense pact to come to Manila’s aid in case of an “armed attack” on its forces or vessels in the Pacific theatre.
Marcos on Thursday echoed his senior security aides’ assessment that the June 17 clash next to the grounded warship did not constitute an armed attack. A Filipino soldier lost a finger in the incident, with Manila also accusing the Chinese coast guard of stealing guns and damaging three boats along with navigational and communication equipment.
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