Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez on Wednesday said Chinese embassy deputy chief of mission Zhou Zhiyong has disrespected
He said the Chinese diplomat insisted in a news forum over the weekend that the Philippines has promised to tow the grounded Navy ship BRP Sierra Madre from Ayungin Shoal in Palawan, which is inside the country’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone.
“Ayungin is about 194 kilometers from Palawan and is clearly within our EEZ. The shoal is more than 3,000 kilometers from the nearest Chinese island. Who are they to tell us to abandon our own maritime territory?” the lawmaker asked. Rodriguez expressed support for the Philippine government’s silence on the supposed Chinese requests for negotiations.
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