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A Philippine Navy official said the service is fully supporting the government’s plan to file new petitions against China’s aggression in the South China Sea before the United Nations.
“The government has been receiving advice to file new petitions aginst China before the UN for their ongoing harassment and it is considering this China instead is telling us not to but talk instead, ” Trinidad said In an interview with Super Radyo dzBB on Sunday. “If it were up to me, we should file a petition. Because China is afraid of us filing it. They would be embarrassed by it,” Trinidad added.
“Among the main conclusions of the arbitral tribunal award of July 2016 was that China caused, through its land reclamation and construction of artificial islands, installations, and structures, severe, irreparable harm to the coral reef system at Mischief Reef, Cuarteron Reef, Firefly Cross Reef, Gaven Reef , Johnson Reef, Hughes Reef, and Subi Reef,” said Jardeleza who was solicitor general when the Philippines filed the case against China in 2013.
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