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Senator Joel Villanueva on Monday filed a resolution strongly condemning China’s unprovoked acts of aggression, continued harassment, and illegal actions in the West Philippine Sea.
Senator Imee Marcos, for his part, said the country should engage in proper talks with China and other claimants in the WPS through “prevalence of reason and not emotion.”“Let us be strong in the midst of this challenge, but calm thinking and speech, and calculated decisions, should prevail,” the senator said.
National Security Council Assistant Director General Jonathan Malaya, for his part, said the government will exhaust all diplomatic means and not just military response to prevent conflict in the WPS. China, for its part, declined to comment on the possibility that the Philippines will file another arbitral case for the destruction of the marine environment in the West Philippine Sea.
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