MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines should not allow China to treat the West Philippine Sea as its community pantry where it can get whatever resources it needs, Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate said in a tweet he made on Tuesday.
Those resources should be made exclusive for Filipinos, he stressed.
“The West Philippines Sea is not a community pantry where we will just let China ‘get according to its need,’ be it our fish or reefs. The Philippines is ours,” Zarate said a Filipino, including the hastags #CommunityPantry and #AtinAngPilipinas, in his tweet.
The lawmaker made the statement just as community pantries started to pop all over the country to help people who have lost t…
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