'China’s defense ministry statement clearly reflects their isolation from the rest of the world on their illegal and uncivilized activities in the West Philippine Sea,' says the Department of National Defense
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“The world has seen and knows that the Filipino people are not aggressors. We will never seek a fight or trouble. Neither will we be cowed into silence, submission, or subservience,” the Department of National Defense said in a statement. The Chinese Defense Ministry’s statement was released to media in Manila shortly after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced a “” in the face of China’s “open, unabating, and illegal, coercive, aggressive, and dangerous attacks.”
The latest exchange between the two Asian countries are indicative of rising tensions between Manila and Beijing over activities in the West Philippine Sea, which includes the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea.
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