MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines should exercise its rights and build structures within its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the West Philippine Sea to deter foreign incursions, retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio said Thursday.
The retired magistrate backed a proposal of American technology and research company Simularity for the Philippines to put up outposts in its unoccupied features in the West Philippine Sea.
“That will be effective because the arbitral award says we have an EEZ and within the EEZ only the coastal state, the Philippines can put up structures, artificial structures, and we have to exercise that right,” he said in an intervi…
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